Castle, 

The  above  cut  represents  the  most  ancient  portion  of  Dudley  Castle,  now 
standing  in  Dudley,  England.  It  was  built  about  the  year  700  by  Athelstan,  the 
roigning  monarch  of  that  region  and  time.  It  is  said  by  good  authority  to  be  the 
oldest  ruin  in  England.  It  is  now  owned  by  the  present  Earl  Dudley  of  England. 


OFFICIAL  REPORT 


REUNION 


DESCENDANTS  OF 


GOVERNOR  THOMAS  DUDLEY. 

A.  >•  «/ 


CONTAINING  AN  ACCOUNT  OF  THE 


PRELIMINARY     ARRANGEMENTS,      BUSINESS     MEETING, 

ORGANIZATION,  RECEPTION  AND  DINNER,  OF   THE 

GOVERNOR    THOMAS    DUDLEY     FAMILY 

ASSOCIATION. 


SALEM,  MASS.: 

SALEM   OBSERVER   BOOK   AND  JOB   PRINT 
1893 


Prepared  and  published  according  to  vote  of  The  Governor 
Thomas  Dudley  Family  Association,  October  25,  1892,  and  vote 
of  its  Board  of  Directors,  Jan.  31,  1893,  by 

SANFORD  H.  DUDLEY, 
DUDLEY  R.  CHILD, 
ALBION  M.  DUDLEY, 

Publication  Committee. 


COPYRIGHT,  1893,  BY 

SANFOBD  H.  DUDLEY,  DUDLEY  R.  CHILD,  ALBION  M.  DUDLEY,. 
for  The  Governor  Thomas  Dudley  Family  Association. 


Introduction. 


In  these  days  of  family  reunions  it  has  doubtless  oc- 
curred to  many  descendants  of  Governor  Thomas  Dudley 
that  they  too  ought  to  join  in  reunion,  and  in  honor  of 
their  illustrious  ancestor.  And  since  the  great  Dudley 
Reunion  of  last  October,  it  has  doubtless  also  occurred  to 
many  to  inquire  why  so  splendid  and  delightful  an  occa- 
sion had  ever  been  deferred  till  then.  Perhaps  the  answer 
may  not  be  far  to  seek.  Probably  no  one  desired  to  seem 
to  put  himself  forward  in  the  family  in  that  way.  The 
exceeding  appropriateness  of  such  a  reunion  was  apparent. 
The  desirability  of  bringing  the  family  together  and  mak- 
ing it  acquainted  with  itself  was  clear.  How  to  do  it, 
and  who  should  do  it,  was  the  question.  As  always 
happens  in  such  cases,  somebody  must  begin,  somebody 
must  point  out  the  way,  and  then  everybody  follows  and 
wonders  why  it  had  not  been  thought  of  or  done  before. 
To  Colonel  L.  Edwin  Dudley,  the  descendants  of  Governor 
Thomas  Dudley  are  indebted  for  originating  and  preparing 
the  way  for  their  first  reunion.  It  happened  as  such  things 
do.  He  suggested  it  to  Mr.  Dean  Dudley,  the  compiler  of 
the  Dudley  genealogies,  because  of  the  familiarity  of  the 
latter  with  our  family,  and  in  order  to  further  the  work  he 
prepared  the  preliminary  circular  in  his  own  office,  and,  with 
Mr.  Dean  Dudley's  consent,  had  it  issued  over  his  name 
instead  of  his  own.  Colonel  Dudley  bore  all  the  expense 
of  this,  and  also  offered  the  use  of  his  office  for  the  meet- 
ings of  the  preliminary  organization.  Most  of  the  meet- 
ings prior  to  the  reunion  were  held  there.  Thus  was 


4  INTRODUCTION. 

begun  the  movement  which  has  resulted  in  "  The  Governor 
Thomas  Dudley  Family  Association." 

The  circular  referred  to,  which  all  will  remember,  is  as 
follows : 

REUNION  OF  THE  DESCENDANTS  OF  GOVERNOR  THOMAS  DUDLEY. 

Dear  Sir :  — 

On  the  zoth  day  of  October,  1629,  at  the  City  of  London,  Eng- 
land, Thomas  Dudley  was  chosen  one  of  the  five  officers  to 
come  to  America  under  the  Royal  charter  that  had  been 
granted.  It  is  not  necessary  at  this  time,  to  detail  the  eventful 
life  of  the  eminent  man  who  was  four  times  Governor  of  Massa- 
chusetts Colony,  and  who  was  the  first  Major-General  of  the 
militia  of  the  Commonwealth.  From  the  time  of  his  arrival  at 
Salem,  in  1631,  to  the  day  of  his  death,  in  July,  1653,  Governor 
Dudley  was  second  to  no  man  in  the  Colony  in  influence  and 
activity.  He  took  a  foremost  part  in  all  the  preliminary  work 
which  laid  broad  and  deep  the  foundations  of  the  liberties  we 
now  enjoy. 

The  descendants  of  Governor  Dudley  have  held  honorable 
station  in  our  Commonwealth  from  then  until  now.  These 
descendants  are  now  very  numerous,  and  many  now  live  in 
other  states  in  the  Union.  The  family  has  inter-married  with 
many  of  the  leading  families  of  the  land,  until  there  are  proba- 
bly more  of  the  Governor's  descendants  bearing  other  names 
than  there  are  that  are  known  by  the  name  of  Dudley. 

For  over  forty  years  I  have  devoted  a  great  part  of  my  time 
to  tracing  the  lineage  of  the  Dudley  family.  In  consequence  I 
have  often  been  asked  to  call  the  family  together  for  a  reunion.' 
I  have  heretofore  declined  because  I  could  not  afford  the  time 
to  do  the  needed  work,  nor  the  money  to  pay  the  inevitable 
expense. 

The  time  has  arrived,  however,  when  the  need  for  a  family 
gathering  has  become  so  great  that  I  have  decided  to  issue  this 
preliminary  call  for  a  reunion  to  be  held  in  the  city  of  Boston, 
on  Tuesday,  the  i8th  day  of  October,  1892. 

Among  other  subjects  which  should  claim  the  family's  atten- 
tion is  the  present  condition  of  the  tomb  in  the  old  Roxbury 
burying  ground,  in  which  lie  buried  Governor  Thomas  Dudley, 
Governor  Joseph  Dudley,  Chief  Justice  Paul  Dudley  and  other 
distinguished  members  of  our  race. 


INTRODUCTION.  5 

This  eminent  service  rendered  the  Commonwealth  in  its  early 
days,  seems  to  demand  that  the  descendants  shall  consider  the, 
question  of  whether  or  not  a  statue  or  other  memorial  shall  be 
erected  to  Governor  Dudley's  memory. 

This  circular  is  merely  for  the  purpose  of  asking  each  and 
every  one  of  the  descendants  of  Governor  Dudley  to  write  and 
say  whether  he  or  she  will  be  willing  to  take  part  in  such  a 
reunion  as  is  proposed.  If  a  sufficient  number  of  replies  shall 
be  received,  I  shall  ask  those  interested  to  form  Committees  to 
take  charge  of  the  several  branches  of  the  work. 

There  are  many  points  of  exceptional  historical  interest  to 
our  family  which  strangers,  coming  to  Boston,  would  desire  to 
visit. 

At  present  no  contributions  are  asked ;  one  member  of  the 
family  has  advanced  the  money  to  pay  for  this  circular ;  but  if 
it  is  decided  to  hold  a  reunion,  generous  contributions  from 
those  able  to  give,  will  be  needed  to  defray  the  expenses  that 
will  necessarily  be  incurred. 

I  have  assurance  from  a  number  of  the  family  that  they  will 
gladly  take  hold  of  this  matter  in  an  energetic  manner.  If 
others  respond  promptly  and  favorably  everything  will  be  put  in 
train  forthwith  to  make  this,  as  it  should  be,  one  of  the  most 
important  family  gatherings  ever  held  in  the  United  States. 

I  simply  ask  that  each  and  every  descendant  of  Governor 
Thomas  Dudley  who  reads  this  circular  will  at  once  send  me  a 
letter  or  postal  expressing  his  or  her  thought  about  the  proposed 
reunion.  With  Cousinly  friendship, 

Sincerely  yours, 

DEAN  DUDLEY, 

Wakefield,  Mass. 


In  the  name  of  Dean  Dudley,  Colonel  Dudley  called  a 
meeting  of  those  who  had  responded  to  the  circular  at  his 
office.  At  the  hour  appointed  and  when  the  ladies  and 
gentlemen  had  assembled  in  such  numbers  as  to  make  it 
apparent  that  a  lively  interest  had  been  created  in  the  pro- 
posed reunion,  Colonel  Dudley  called  the  meeting  to  order, 
and  upon  his  motion,  Mr.  Dean  Dudley  was  made  chair- 
man, also  those  present  were  made  a  general  committee, 


6  INTRODUCTION. 

and  Mr.  Dudley  R.  Child  of  Boston  was  elected  secretary. 
Twelve  members  of  the  family  were  present,  representing 
descendants  of  four  of  Governor  Dudley's  six  children. 
The  further  doings  of  the  committee  appear  as  taken  from 
the  records  of  the  secretary. 

SANFORD   H.   DUDLEY, 
DUDLEY  R.  CHILD, 
ALBION  M.  DUDLEY, 

Publication  Committee. 


At  the  meeting  of  the  descendants  of  Governor  Thomas 
Dudley,  in  the  Chapel  of  the  Bowdoin  Square  Church,  Bos- 
ton, on  Tuesday,  Oct.  25th,  1892,  Sanford  H.  Dudley, 
Dudley  R.  Child  and  Dr.  Albion  M.  Dudley,  were  appointed 
a  special  committee  with  Mr.  Dean  Dudley  of  Montrose, 
for  the  preparation  of  an  account  of  all  matters  pertaining 
to  the  Reunion  of  that  day.  Mr.  Dean  Dudley  declined 
to  meet  with  the  committee  for  this  purpose,  and  has  not 
accepted  the  office  of  Historian  of  The  Governor  Thomas 
Dudley  Family  Association,  or  become  a  member  thereof. 
The  committee  presenting  this  official  report  were  further 
authorized  to  prepare  and  publish  the  same,  by  vote  of  the 
Board  of  Directors  of  the  Association. 

The  Executive  Committee  before  mentioned  met  fre- 
quently and  enlarged  itself  from  time  to  time  until  the  full 
membership  included  the  following  : 

EXECUTIVE  COMMITTEE. 

DEAN  DUDLEY,  Chairman,  .  .  Wakefield,  Mass. 

DUDLEY  R.  CHILD,  Secretary,  .  30  High  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 

L.  EDWIN  DUDLEY,  Treasurer,  50  Bromfield  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 
SANFORD  H.  DUDLEY,  .  95  Milk  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 

DR.  ALBION  M.  DUDLEY,  .  .  .        Salem,  Mass. 

WARREN  P.  DUDLEY,  .    5  Pemberton  Sq.,  Boston,  Mass. 

ELBRIDGE  G.  DUDLEY,  .  202  Devonshire  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 
JAMES  F.  DUDLEY,  ....  Hartford,  Conn. 
JOHN  WARD  DEAN,  .  .18  Somerset  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 

ROBERT  T.  BABSON,    .  113  Devonshire  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 

JOSEPH  B.  MOORS,  .         1 1 1  Devonshire  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 


8  PROCEEDINGS. 

E.  DUDLEY  FREEMAN,        .  .  .  .     Portland,  Me. 

JASON  H.  DUDLEY,         .  .  .  .   Colebrook,  N.  H. 

AUGUSTINE  JONES,  .        ".  .  Providence,  R.  I. 

DR.  FRANCIS  H.  ATKINS,         .  ,         E.  Las  Vegas,  N.  M. 

OSCAR  L.  DUDLEY,  .  .     113  Adams  St.,  Chicago,  111. 

RICHARD  M.  JONES,        .          108  So.  i2th  St.,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
GILMAN  H.  TUCKER,  .  .        806  Broadway,  New  York. 

GEORGE  C.  CODMAN,    ....      Woodford's,  Me. 
PROF.  DANIEL  D.  SLADE,    .  .  .    Chestnut  Hill,  Mass. 

FRANK  DUDLEY,  .         394  Commercial  St.,  Portland,  Me. 

Miss  HARRIET  E.  HENSHAW,        .  .  Leicester,  Mass. 

MRS.  SARAH  DUDLEY  WILLIAMS  CHANDLER,    Lexington,  Mass. 
MRS.  HARVEY  A.  JONES,    .  .  .     Sycamore,  111. 

Miss  LILY  DUDLEY,       .  .  140  W.  nth  St.,  New  York. 

MRS.  HEPHSIBAH  H.  BRADLEE,    .  .  Medford,  Mass. 

JOHN  S.  SARGENT,         .  .  -45  Munroe  St.,  Chicago. 

DR.  DANIEL  D.  GILBERT,        308  Boston  St.,  Dorchester,  Mass. 
HENRY  F.  HARRIS,      .  .     405  Main  St.,  Worcester,  Mass. 

EDWARD  H.  WHITMAN,       95  Lawrence  Ave.,  Dorchester,  Mass. 
JAMES  B.  WIGGIN,  .  17  Bromfield  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 

AUGUSTUS  M.  DUDLEY,         .  .  .       Presque  Isle,  Me. 


After  the  second  meeting,  a  circular  and  blank  were  is- 
sued, asking  for  names  and  addresses  of  members  of  the 
family.  The  blanks  were  promptly  returned  and  the  list 
swelled  from  a  few  hundred  to  nearly  a  thousand  names. 

Sub-committees  were  formed  on  Finance,  Memorials, 
Arrangements  and  Reception.  They  were  composed  as 
follows : 

COMMITTEE  ON  FINANCE. 

L.  EDWIN  DUDLEY,  Chairman,   E.  DUDLEY  FREEMAN, 
WARREN  P.  DUDLEY,  JAMES  F.  DUDLEY, 

ROBERT  T.  BABSON,  GILMAN  H.  TUCKER. 

COMMITTEE  ON  MEMORIALS. 

DUDLEY  R.  CHILD,  Chairman,    MRS.  HEPSIBAH  H.  BRADLEE, 
DEAN  DUDLEY,  Secretary,  JOHN  WARD  DEAN, 

DANIEL  D.  GILBERT,  EDWARD  H.  WHITMAN, 

MRS.  SARAH  D.  W.  CHANDLER. 


PROCEEDINGS.  9 

COMMITTEE  ON  ARRANGEMENTS. 

SANFORDH.  DUDLEY,  Chairman,  ALBION  M.  DUDLEY, 
L.  EDWIN  DUDLEY,  DUDLEY  R.  CHILD, 

JOSEPH  B.  MOORS. 

COMMITTEE  ON  RECEPTION. 

DR.  A.  M.  DUDLEY,  Chairman,  Miss  GERTRUDE  DUDLEY, 
ELBRIDGE  GERRY  DUDLEY,  "    LILY  DUDLEY, 

EDWARD  H.  WHITMAN,  "    JENNIE  B.  DUDLEY, 

HOWLAND  DUDLEY,  "    MARY  JOHNSON, 

WILLIAM  D.  MOORS,  "    EDITH  CHILD. 

The  Finance  Committee  sent  out  the  following  circular, 
Col.  L.  Edwin  Dudley  having  been  elected  Treasurer  of 
the  general  committee. 

50  BROMFIELD  ST.,  Boston,  Mass. 

September  15,  1892. 

The  undersigned  have  been  appointed  a  committee  on  finance 
to  raise  funds  to  defray  the  expense  of  organizing  the  reunion 
of  the  descendants  of  Governor  Thomas  Dudley,  to  be  held  in 
Boston  on  the  2$th  of  October,  1892. 

It  is  estimated  that  a  fund  of  about  five  hundred  dollars 
($500.00)  will  be  required.  Should  more  money  be  received  than 
is  required,  it  will  be  reserved  for  the  fund  which  it  is  proposed 
to  raise  for  the  purpose  of  providing  for  the  care  of  the  family 
tomb  in  the  Old  Roxbury  Burying  Ground. 

We  appeal  to  you  to  contribute  as  liberally  as  you  can  afford- 
Funds  are  imperatively  needed  to  carry  forward  the  work ;  we 
hope  you  will  respond  promptly. 

Checks  should  be  made  payable  to  L.  EDWIN  DUDLEY, 
Treasurer. 

Sincerely  yours, 

L.  EDWIN  DUDLEY, 
WARREN  P.  DUDLEY, 
ROBERT  T.  BABSON, 
E.  DUDLEY  FREEMAN, 
JAMES  F.  DUDLEY, 
GILMAN  H.  TUCKER. 


10  PROCEEDINGS. 

This  request  met  with  a  ready  and  generous  response, 
and  nearly  four  hundred  dollars  were  contributed. 

The  Committee  on  Memorials  planned  for  an  exhibition 
at  the  reunion  of  family  portraits,  antiquities,  etc.,  and 
were  in  communication  with  members  of  the  family 
possessing  these  articles.  The  Executive  Committee  de- 
cided upon  Tuesday,  Oct.  25th,  as  the  day  for  the  reunion, 
and  selected  Mr.  Sanford  H.  Dudley,  of  Cambridge,  to 
preside  at  the  dinner,  and  the  Committee  on  Arrangements 
made  provision  for  the  various  exercises  of  the  day  as  ex- 
pressed in  the  circulars  following  : 

DUDLEY   REUNION. 


BOSTON,  MASS.,  October  8,  1892. 

THE  FIRST  REUNION  of  the  descendants  of  Governor  THOMAS 
DUDLEY  will  be  held  on  TUESDAY,  Oct.  25,  1892,  at  the  Revere 
House,  Boston,  Mass. 

MR.  DEAN  DUDLEY,  the  well  known  genealogist  and  historian 
of  the  Dudley  family,  will  be  present  as  a  special  guest  of  the 
occasion,  and  will  have  charge  of  and  explain  numerous  and 
valuable  memorials  and  relics,  consisting  of  ancient  original 
portraits  of  the  American  Dudley  ancestors,  governors,  judges, 
statesmen  and  ladies  of  renown  ;  silver-ware,  tankards,  jewelry, 
cradles,  baptismal  robes,  etc.,  which  will  be  on  exhibition  at  the 
Revere  House  on  the  date  of  the  reunion  from  2  p.  M.  until  the 
hour  of  the  dinner.  This  will  give  all  the  members  of  the  family 
an  opportunity  to  meet  MR.  DEAN  DUDLEY,  who  has  devoted 
his  life  to  earnest  and  laborious  efforts  in  behalf  of  our  family 
name  and  the  successful  work  of  tracing  and  recording  the  his- 
tory of  the  Dudley  family.  All  who  have  relics  are  requested  to 
send  or  bring  them  to  the  reunion. 

A  reception  committee  will  be  in  attendance  between  the 
hours  of  2  and  5.30  o'clock  p.  M.,  who  will  endeavor  to  make  all 
acquainted  with  each  other,  and  give  all  information  in  their 
power. 

It  is  expected  that  the  occasion  will  be  one  of  much  interest 
and  pleasure,  and  all  descendants  of  the  old  Puritan  Governor 
are  cordially  invited  to  honor  his  memory,  and  to  contribute  to 
the  success  of  the  gathering  by  their  presence. 


PROCEEDINGS.  11 

The  Dinner  will  be  given  at  5.30  o'clock  P.  M.,  at  the  close  of 
which  there  will  be  an  address  upon  the  Life,  Character  and 
Public  Services  of  Governor  THOMAS  DUDLEY,  by  JOSEPH  B. 
MOORS,  Esq.,  of  the  Bostonian  Society,  Boston ;  and  brief  ad- 
dresses by  DEAN  DUDLEY,  Esq.,  of  Wakefield,  Mass. ;  SANFORD 
H.  DUDLEY,  Esq.,  of  Cambridge,  Mass. ;  Colonel  L.  EDWIN 
DUDLEY,  of  Boston,  Mass. ;  Dr.  ALBION  M.  DUDLEY,  of  Salem, 
Mass. ;  ELIAS  DUDLEY  FREEMAN,  of  Portland,  Me. ;  JAMES  F. 
DUDLEY,  of  Hartford,  Conn. ;  and  others  whose  names  cannot 
at  present  be  announced. 

It  is  expected  that  during  the  day,  or  immediately  after  the 
banquet,  a  permanent  organization  of  the  descendants  of  Gov- 
ernor THOMAS  DUDLEY  will  be  considered,  and,  if  agreed  upon, 
the  proper  measures  instituted  with  regard  to  raising  a  fund  for 
the  preservation  of  the  tomb  at  Roxbury,  where  rest  the  remains 
of  Governor  DUDLEY  and  other  members  of  his  family  (which 
is  to  be  deeded  to  the  descendants  by  the  heirs  of  Colonel 
JOSEPH  DUDLEY),  and  for  the  erection  of  some  suitable  memo- 
rial of  the  Governor. 

Tickets  to  the  Dinner  will  be  $2.50  each,  and  as  the  capacity 
of  the  tables  is  limited  to  about  two  hundred  and  fifty  plates,  it 
may  become  necessary  to  assign  tickets  in  the  order  in  which 
application  therefor  is  received.  Please,  therefore,  to  indicate 
the  number  of  tickets  you  desire  on  the  blank  enclosed,  and  for- 
ward the  same  with  remittance  of  the  money  therefor  by  check 
or  postal  order,  by  earliest  mail,  to 

DUDLEY  R.   CHILD, 
Secretary  Committee  on  Arrangements, 
30  High  Street,  Boston,  Mass. 


THE  REUNION  OF  THE  DESCENDANTS  OF  GOVERNOR  THOMAS 
DUDLEY.    PROGRAMME,  TUESDAY,  OCTOBER  25™,  1892. 


10  A.  M.  —  Business  Meeting  at  the  Chapel  of  the  Bowdoin 
Square  Church,  directly  opposite  the  Revere  House.  At 
this  meeting  the  subject  of  forming  a  permanent  associa- 
tion for  the  purpose  of  caring  for  the  family  tomb  and 
the  erection  of  a  monument  or  other  suitable  memorial  to 
the  memory  of  our  distinguished  ancestor,  will  be  consid- 
ered and  acted  upon. 


12  PROCEEDINGS. 

2  P.  M. — Reception  in  the  parlors  of  the  Revere  House,  Bowdoin 
Square,  Boston,  at  which  there  will  be  '  exhibited  many 
original  family  portraits  and  other  relics.  Mr.  Dean 
Dudley,  the  family  historian,  will  be  present  to  receive  the 
guests  and. to  explain  the  articles  exhibited. 

5.30  P.  M.  —  Dinner  at  the  Revere  House,  tickets  for  which 
should  be  obtained  from  Dudley  R.  Child,  Sec'y,  30  High 
St.,  Boston,  on  or  before  Saturday,  Oct.  22d,  in  order  that 
the  number  of  guests  to  be  provided  for  may  be  known  in 
season.  Later  applications  will  be  received  at  the  Revere 
House.  Numerous  short  addresses  will  be  delivered  after 
the  dinner  by  members  of  the  family. 

The  first  two  meetings  are  open  and  free  to  all,  and  it  is  hoped 
and  expected  that  a  large  number  of  the  descendants  will  be 
present  and  participate  in  the  discussions  of  the  business  mat- 
ters to  be  considered  at  the  morning  meeting.  All  who  have 
relics  are  requested  to  bring  or  send  them  to  the  Revere  House 
on  Monday  (or  Tuesday  at  the  latest),  where  they  will  receive 
all  possible  care  and  attention  from  the  Committee  in  charge. 

BOSTON,  October  19,  1892. 


©rgantsation. 


The  day  of  the  reunion  was  bright  and  clear.  At  ten 
o'clock  in  the  morning  some  seventy-five  members  of  the 
family  met  in  the  Chapel  of  the  Bowdoin  Square  Church. 
The  meeting  organized  with  the  choice  of  L.  Edwin  Dud- 
ley of  Boston  as  chairman,  and  Warren  P.  Dudley  of  Bos- 
ton, secretary.  Mr.  Sanford  H.  Dudley,  instructed  by  the 
executive  committee,  presented  a  plan  for  the  permanent 
organization  of  the  family,  in  form  of  a  constitution  and 
by-laws.  This  document  was  discussed  and  agreed  upon 
by  sections  and  finally  adopted  as  a  whole.  A  nominating 
committee  was  appointed  and,  after  consultation,  presented 
a  list  of  officers,  who  were  elected  by  the  meeting,  thus 
completing  the  organization  of  The  Governor  Thomas  Dud- 
ley Family  Association.  Mr.  Sanford  H.  Dudley  having 
been  elected  president  of  the  Association,  was  introduced 
to  the  chairman  of  the  meeting,  and  assumed  the  chair. 
The  further  proceedings  were  brief,  and  included  the  ap- 
pointment of  the  special  publication  committee,  by  whom 
this  report  is  prepared.  Many  present  availed  themselves 
of  the  opportunity  to  sign  the  constitution  and  by-laws,  pay 
their  fees  and  become  members  of  the  Association.  The 
meeting  adjourned  at  noon,  some  of  the  people  visiting  the 
Dudley  tomb  in  the  Old  Roxbury  burying  ground  and 
other  points  of  interest. 


14  ORGANIZATION. 

CONSTITUTION  AND  BY-LAWS 

OF 

THE  GOVERNOR  THOMAS  DUDLEY  FAMILY  ASSOCIATION, 
ORGANIZED  OCT.  25,  1892. 


NAME. 


ARTICLE  I.  This  Association  shall  be  called  The  GOV- 
ERNOR THOMAS  DUDLEY  FAMILY  ASSOCIATION. 

PURPOSE. 

ARTICLE  II.  The  purpose  of  this  association  is  to  pro- 
mote acquaintance  and  good-fellowship  among  the  de- 
scendants of  Governor  Thomas  Dudley,  one  of  the 
founders  of  New  England,  many  times  governor  and  dep- 
uty-governor of  the  ancient  Colony  of  Massachusetts  Bay  ; 
to  create  and  promote  sentiments  of  respect,  love  and  re- 
gard, for  him,  his  achievements  and  his  honored  memory  ; 
to  investigate  and  study  his  life  and  achievements  and  the 
lives  and  careers  of  distinguished  men  and  women  among 
his  posterity  ;  to  establish  such  memorials  and  monuments 
to  his  name  and  memory  as  shall  be  most  appropriate  and 
fitting ;  to  take  and  to  insure  the  taking  of  such  means 
and  measures  for  the  protection  of  the  place  where  rest 
the  ashes  of  our  celebrated  ancestor  as  may  be  found  most 
appropriate  and  fitting;  and  finally  to  knit  together  in 
closer  bonds  of  unity  and  respect  the  living  descendants 
of  Governor  Dudley. 

MEMBERSHIP. 

ARTICLE  III.  Any  descendant  of  Governor  Thomas 
Dudley,  or  the  husband  or  wife  of  such  descendant,  may 
become  a  member  of  this  Association  by  signing  the  Con- 
stitution and  By-Laws  and  paying  an  initiation  fee  of 


ORGANIZATION.  1 5 

Three  Dollars  and  otherwise  complying  with  the  terms  and 
conditions  hereof  upon  proposal  of  any  member  and  rec- 
ommendation of  the  Board  of  Directors  ;  and  upon  like 
recommendation  any  person  may  be  dropped  from  member- 
ship by  the  Association. 

OFFICERS. 

ARTICLE  IV.  The  officers  of  the  Association  shall  con- 
sist of  a  president,  ten  vice-presidents,  a  board  of  ten  di- 
rectors, a  treasurer,  a  secretary,  a  historian,  and  such  com- 
mittees of  the  Association  as  may  from  time  to  time  be 
constituted. 

ELECTIONS  AND  TEEM  OF  OFFICE. 

ARTICLE  V.  The  annual  meeting  of  the  Association 
shall  be  held  on  the  third  Tuesday  of  October  in  each 
year,  at  which  time  the  officers  of  the  Association  shall  be 
chosen.  They  shall  hold  office  till  the  next  annual  meet- 
ing or  until  others  shall  be  chosen  in  their  stead.  Such 
elections  shall  be  by  ballot. 

DUTIES    OF    THE    SEVERAL    OFFICERS. 

ARTICLE  VI.  The  president  shall  preside  at  all  meet- 
ings of  the  Association  and  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  and 
in  his  absence  the  senior  vice-president  who  happens  to  be 
present.  The  full  board  of  directors  shall  consist  of  the 
president,  the  several  vice-presidents,  the  directors,  the 
treasurer,  secretary,  and  historian,  and  five  persons  and  the 
records  at  any  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  shall 
constitute  a  quorum  thereof. 

TREASURER. 

The  treasurer  shall  receive,  hold  and  disburse,  all  the 
moneys  of  the  Association,  and  shall  give  such  bond  as  by 
vote  of  the  Board  of  Directors  shall  be  required  of  him. 
He  shall  from  time  to  time  render  an  account  pf  the- 


16  ORGANIZATION. 

moneys  received  and  disbursed,  both  to  the  Board  of  Di- 
rectors and  to  the  Association,  and  make  report  to  the 
Association  at  the  annual  meeting,  which  upon  examina- 
tion and  approval  by  an  auditing  committee  appointed  for 
that  purpose  by  the  president,  shall,  if  found  correct,  be 
accepted  and  allowed.  All  bills  and  charges  paid  by  him 
shall  first  receive  the  approval  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

SECRETARY. 

The  secretary  shall  have  charge  of  the  books,  papers, 
and  records  of  the  Association,  saving  and  excepting  those 
pertaining  to  the  duties  of  the  treasurer,  and,  as  to  those, 
the  treasurer  shall  have  charge  thereof. 

HISTORIAN. 

The  historian  shall  from  time  to  time  inform  the  Asso- 
ciation of  such  facts,  worthy  of  note  or  mention,  relative  to 
Governor  Thomas  Dudley  and  any  of  his  posterity  as  he 
shall  discover,  and  give  such  assistance  as  he  can  to  mem- 
bers of  the  Association  who  may  desire  to  investigate  any 
such  facts.  In  the  absence  of  any  special  committee  ap- 
pointed for  the  purpose,  he  shall  take  note  of  the  death  of 
any  member  and  at  the  next  meeting  report  thereon,  with 
a  brief  and  appropriate  eulogy  of  the  deceased. 

MEETINGS. 

ARTICLE  VII.  In  addition  to  the  annual  meeting  of 
the  Association,  other  meetings  shall  be  held  at  such  times 
and  places  as  the  Board  of  Directors  shall  appoint,  or  as 
they  may  be  instructed  by  vote  of  the  Association,  or  upon 
the  written  request  of  any  ten  members  of  the  Association. 

ANNUAL   DUES. 

ARTICLE  VIII.  Each  member  shall,  in  addition  to  the 
initiation  fee  before  provided,  pay  each  year  thereafter,  the 
sum  of  one  dollar. 


ORGANIZATION.  17 

FINANCES. 

ARTICLE  IX.  Moneys  received  from  initiation  fees 
shall  be  deposited  or  invested  as  directed  by  the  Board  of 
Directors,  the  income  thereof  only  to  be  applied  to  pay- 
ment of  current  or  ordinary  expenses,  unless  otherwise  re- 
quired by  vote  of  the  Association.  Income  derived  from 
the  payment  of  annual  dues  shall  be  under  the  direction 
of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

INCORPORATION. 

ARTICLE  X.  In  case  an  incorporation  of  this  Associa- 
tion shall  at  any  time  be  obtained,  then  upon  the  vote  of 
the  Board  of  Directors,  it  shall  become  the  duty  of  the 
several  officers  of  the  Association  to  deliver  and  pay  over 
to  the  appropriate  officers  of  such  incorporated  association 
all  the  various  moneys,  books,  papers  and  documents,  or 
other  property  in  their  possession  and  belonging  to  this 
Association. 

CHANGE  OF   BY-LAWS 

ARTICLE  XI.  These  by-laws  may  be  changed  at  any 
meeting  of  the  Association  by  a  two-thirds  vote  of  the 
members  present  and  voting ;  provided  that  printed  notice 
of  the  meeting  and  the  proposed  amendment  has  been 
mailed  to  each  member,  not  less  than  three  weeks  prior  to- 
the  meeting. 


18  ORGANIZATION. 

LIST  OF  OFFICERS 

OF 

THE  GOVERNOR  THOMAS  DUDLEY  FAMILY  ASSOCIATION, 

1892-93. 


President. 
SANFORD  H.  DUDLEY,  95  Milk  Street,  Boston,  Mass. 

Vice-Presidents. 

HENRY  F.  HARRIS,  Worcester,  Mass- 

JAMES  HENRY  WIGGIN,  Bostou,  " 

DR.  ELIZABETH  ABBOTT  CARLETON,  Boston,  " 

Miss  LOUISE  WINTHROP  KOUES,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

E.  DUDLEY  FREEMAN,  Portland,  Me. 

JAMES  F.  DUDLEY,  Hartford,  Conn. 

HENRY  DUDLEY  TEETOR,  Denver,  Col. 

RICHARD  M.  JONES,  Philadelphia,  Penn. 

GUILFORD  DUDLEY,  Topeka,  Kan. 

DR.  FRANCIS  H.  ATKINS.  E.  Las  Vegas,  N.  M. 

Secretary. 
DUDLEY  R.  CHILD,  30  High  St.,  Boston  Mass. 

Treasurer. 
L.  EDWIN  DUDLEY,  50  Bromfield  St.,      Boston,  Mass. 

Directors. 

CHAS.  E.  WIGGIN,  Boston,  Mass. 

WARREN  P.  DUDLEY,  Boston,  " 

JOSEPH  B.  MOORS,  Boston,  " 

ROBERT  T.  BABSON,  Boston,  " 

Miss  JULIA  C.  CLARKE,  Boston,  " 

MRS.  FLORENCE  M.  ADKINSON,  Dorchester,  " 

DR.  DANIEL  DUDLEY  GILBERT,  Dorchester,  " 

DR.  ALBION  M.  DUDLEY,  Salem,  " 

AUGUSTINE  JONES,  Providence,  R.  I. 

FRANK  DUDLEY,  Portland,  Me. 


IReception  anfc  IReunioru 


The  Committee  on  Memorials  had  been  busily  engaged, 
and  had  gathered  and  arranged,  in  the  parlors  of  the 
Revere  House,  a  large  and  interesting  collection  of  por- 
traits of  the  ancestors  of  the  different  branches  of  the 
family,  which  were  hung  upon  the  walls,  while  many 
smaller  articles  were  placed  in  show  cases. 

The  parlors  were  crowded  from  two  o'clock  until  the 
hour  for  dinner,  the  Reception  Committee  using  every 
endeavor  to  make  all  acquainted  with  each  other. 


LIST   OF   MEMORIALS  EXHIBITED  IN  THE  PARLORS  OF  THE 
REVERE  HOUSE. 

PORTRAITS. 

Gov.  JOSEPH  DUDLEY,  son  of  Gov.  Thomas  Dudley.  Painted  in 
England  about  1790.  Owned  by  Dr.  Daniel  Dudley  Gilbert, 
Dorchester,  Mass. 

(Photographs  of  this  portrait  may  be  obtained  from  Elmer  Chickering,  West 
Street,  Boston.) 

Gov.  JOSEPH  DUDLEY.    Owned  by  Prof.  Charles  Eliot  Norton, 

Cambridge,  Mass. 
HON.  WILLIAM  DUDLEY,  son  of  Gov.  Joseph  Dudley.    Owned 

by  Mrs.  H.  H.  Bradlee,  Medford,  Mass. 
HON.  WILLIAM   DUDLEY,    son  of    Gov.    Joseph    Dudley    and 

Rebecca  Tyng  (1686-1743).    Owned   by  Dudley   R.  Child, 

Boston. 
CHIEF  JUSTICE  PAUL  DUDLEY,  son  of  Governor  Joseph  Dudley 

(1675-1751).    Owned  by  Dudley  R.  Child. 


20  RECEPTION   AND   REUNION. 

LUCY  WAINWRIGHT,  wife  of  Chief  Justice  Paul  Dudley,  and 

daughter  of  Col.  John  Wainwright  and  Elizabeth  Norton. 

Owned  by  Dudley  R.  Child. 
REBECCA  DUDLEY,  daughter  of  Hon.  Wm.  Dudley.    (Died  1809). 

Owned  by  Mrs.  H.  H.  Bradlee. 
REBECCA  TYNG,  wife  of  Gov.  Joseph  Dudley.    Owned  by  Prof. 

Chas.  Eliot  Norton. 
JUDGE  ADDINGTON  DAVENPORT,  whose  daughter  was  wife  of 

Hon.  William  Dudley.    Painted  by   Sir  Godfrey  Kneller. 

Owned  by  Mrs.  H.  H.  Bradlee. 
MRS.  ADDINGTON  DAVENPORT.      Painted  by  Kneller.    Owned 

by  Mrs.  H.  H.  Bradlee. 
ELIZABETH  DAVENPORT,  wife  of  Hon.  Wm.  Dudley.      Painted 

by  Blackburn  about  1730.    Owned  by  Mrs.  H.  H.  Bradlee, 
DUDLEY  HALL,  (born  1780).    Owned  by  Mrs.  H.  H.  Bradlee. 
LUCY  WINTHROP,  niece  of  Lucy  Wainwright.    Owned  by  Mrs. 

H.  H.  Bradlee. 
JOANNA  (FERRYMAN)  EMERY,  great-great-granddaughter  of  Gov. 

Thos.   Dudley.     (Portrait  on  ivory.)     Owned  by  Charles 

Emery  Stevens,  Worcester,  Mass. 

PHOTOGRAPHS,  ETC. 

Gov.  JOSEPH  DUDLEY.  From  portrait  owned  by  Hon.  Robert 
C.  Winthrop.  Owned  by  Rev.  Edward  Everett  Hale,  D.D., 
Boston. 

HON.  WILLIAM  DUDLEY.    Owned  by  Dean  Dudley,  Montrose, 

Mass. 
ELIZABETH  DAVENPORT,  wife  of  Hon.  Wm.  Dudley.    Owned  by 

Dean  Dudley. 
REBECCA  DUDLEY,  daughter  of  Hon.  Wm.  Dudley.    Owned  by 

Dean  Dudley. 
MARY  DUDLEY,  (born  1692),  at  fifteen  years  of  age;  daughter  of 

Gov.  Joseph  Dudley,  wife  of  Francis  Wainwright,  and  later, 

of  Capt.  Joseph  Atkins.    Owned  by  Dean  Dudley. 
CAPT.  JOSEPH  ATKINS.    Owned  by  Dean  Dudley. 
MARY  DUDLEY,  wife  of  Capt.  Jos.  Atkins.     Owned  by  Dean 

Dudley. 
DR.  DUDLEY  ATKINS,  (1798-1845),  great-grandson  of  Gov.  Joseph 

Dudley.      Owned  by  Dr.  Francis   H.   Atkins,   of    E.   Las 

Vegas,  New  Mexico. 


RECEPTION   AND   REUNION.  21 

LUCY  WINTHROP,  niece  of  Lucy  Wainwright.    Owned  by  Dean 

Dudley. 

DUDLEY  HALL,  of  Medford  (1850).    Owned  by  Dean  Dudley. 
SALLIE  DUDLEY  RUMRILL,  sister  of   Col.  Joseph  Dudley,  of 

Roxbury.    Owned  by  F.  W.  Dudley. 
Six  DIFFERENT  VIEWS  of  Dudley  Castle  in  Dudley,   England, 

and  the  Dudley  Fountain  at  same  place.     Owned  by  Dr. 

Albion  M.  Dudley,  Salem,  Mass. 
THE  PORTRAIT  OF  Gov.  JOSEPH  DUDLEY  before  and  after  its 

restoration.    Owned  by  Dr.  D.  D.  Gilbert. 
WILLIAM  WARD,  late  Earl  of  Dudley,  England,  and  his  family, 

Owned  by  Dr.  Albion  M.  Dudley,  Salem. 
ENGRAVING  OF  HON.  DUDLEY  WOODBRIDGE,  great-grandson  of 

Gov.  Thos.  Dudley.    Owned  by  Dr.  W.  E.  Woodbridge. 


RELICS,  ETC. 

A  "  CLOTH  OF  GOLD  "  BAPTISMAL  ROBE,  with  its  inner  robe  of 
white  moire  antique,  and  a  pair  of  large  silver  spoons  with 
Dudley  crest.  The  robe  and  spoons  came  down  with  the 
portrait  of  Gov.  Joseph,  through  the  line  of  Dudley  ancestry, 
to  the  present  owner.  Owned  by  Dr.  D.  D.  Gilbert. 

A  MEMORIAL  JEWEL  in  the  shape  of  a  funeral  urn,  set  in  rubies, 
and  bearing  within  a  representation  of  the  weeping  willow 
over  an  urn,  and  the  monogram  H.  S.,  commemorating 
Henry  Sewall,  son  of  Rebecca  Dudley  and  Samuel  Sewall. 
Owned  by  Dr.  D.  D.  Gilbert. 

Gov.  JOSEPH  DUDLEY'S  holsters  and  horse  pistols,  snow-shoes, 
and  his  wife's  overshoes  and  christening  blanket.  Owned 
by  Mrs.  Mary  E.  Brigham,  Lexington,  Mass. 

THE  IRENICON  —  by  Major-Gen'l  Daniel  Denison.  Owned  by 
Prof.  Daniel  Denison  Slade,  Chestnut  Hill,  Mass. 

SILVER  CAUDLE  CUP,  enchased  with  coat-of-arms.  Gift  from 
Gov.  John  Leverett  to  his  daughter  Mary,  wife  of  Paul 
Dudley,  the  son  of  Gov.  Thomas  Dudley.  Owned  by  Mrs. 
H.  H.  Bradlee. 

FAC-SIMILE  OF  THE  CHARTER  OF  HARVARD  COLLEGE.  Signed  by 
Thomas  Dudley,  Governor  of  the  Colony  of  Massachusetts 
Bay.  Owned  by  Sanford  H.  Dudley. 


22  RECEPTION  AND   REUNION. 

DUDLEY  COAT-OF-ARMS,  with  Dudley  crest  and  quarterings  of 
Dudley,  Brandon,  Royal  England,  and  Hastings.  Owned  by 
Mrs.  Catherine  A.  Dudley  Bramble,  New  London,  Conn. 

PAIR  OF  SILVER  SUGAR  BOWLS  enchased  with  coat-of-arms,  and 
owned  by  Gov.  Joseph  Dudley  or  his  son  Hon.  Wm.^Dud- 
ley.  Owned  by  Mrs.  H.  H.  Bradlee. 

TWELVE  TEASPOONS  with  Dudley  crest  enchased.  Handed  down 
from  Gov.  Joseph  Dudley.  Owned  by  Mrs.  H.  H.  Bradlee. 

WICKER  CRADLE,  brought  from  EnglandbyGov.  Joseph  Dudley. 
It  has  been  used  by  each  generation  since  about  1700  and 
is  in  excellent  condition.  Owned  by  Mrs.  H.  H.  Bradlee. 

Gov.  JOSEPH  DUDLEY'S  gold  ring,  owned  by  Dudley  H.  Bradlee. 

SILK  WEDDING  VEST  of  Gov.  Joseph  Dudley.  Owned  byJMrs. 
Sarah  Dudley  Williams  Chandler,  Lexington,  Mass. 

FOUR  BABY  CAPS  made  for  the  first  child  of  William  Dudley  and 
Sarah  Williams.  Several  ruffles  made  for  her  mother  by 
this  child  at  the  age  of  thirteen.  A  silver  teaspoon  which 
belonged  to  Sarah  Williams.  The  knitting  sheath  of  wood 
and  ivory  which  belonged  to  this  family  (Wm.  Dudley)  for 
seven  generations.  Exhibited  by  the  N.  E.  Historic  Gen- 
ealogical Society,  through  John  Ward  Dean,  Librarian,  and 
presented  to  the  society  by  Mrs.  Elizabeth  C.  Young, 
Medford,  Mass. 

SILVER  TABLESPOONS,  which  belonged  to  Lucretia  Woodbridge, 
great-great-grand  daughter  of  Mercy  Dudley  and  Rev.  John 
Woodbridge.  Owned  by  Mrs.  Catherine  A.  (Dudley)  Bram- 
ble, New  London,  Conn. 

AUTOGRAPH  letter  to  Hon.  John  Dudley,  1776,  member  of  the 
New  Hampshire  Committee  of  safety,  from  Hon.  Meshech 
Weare,  of  the  committee.  Owned  by  Dean  Dudley. 

COMMISSION  from  Gov.  Joseph  Dudley  to  Lieut.  Col.  Winthrop 
Hilton  making  him  commander  of  the  Norridgwock  Expedi- 
tion, 1706.  Owned  by  Dean  Dudley. 

FRONTISPIECE  of  a  book  with  autograph  of  Samuel  Sewall,  Jr., 
(son  of  Judge  Sewall)  who  married  Rebecca,  daughter  of 
Gov.  Joseph  Dudley,  in  1702.  Owned  by  Dean  Dudley. 

Two  AUTOGRAPH  LETTERS  of  Gov.  Joseph  Dudley  to  Col.  Win- 
throp Hilton,  1707  and  1708.  Col.  Hilton  was  son  of  Ann 
Dudley,  wife  of  Edward  Hilton,  Esq.,  and  daughter  of  Rev. 
Samuel  Dudley,  eldest  son  of  Gov.  Thomas  Dudley.  Owned 
by  Dean  Dudley. 


RECEPTION    AND   REUNION. 


23 


DUDLEY  coat-of-arms  (in  colors).     Designed  by  Col.  Harry  C. 

Dudley  of  Buffalo,  New  York.    Owned  by  Dean  Dudley. 
CHART  showing  ancestry  of  the  Barons  of  Dudley.     Prepared 

and  arranged  by  Col.  H.  C.  Dudley,  from  Dean  Dudley's 

tables.    Owned  by  Dean  Dudley. 
THE  LINE  OF  DESCENT  of  the  American  family  of  Gov.  Thomas 

Dudley,  with  his  coat-of-arms  and  motto.     Prepared  by  Col. 

H.  C.  Dudley.    Owned  by  Dean  Dudley. 
KINGS  AND  QUEENS  OF  ENGLAND.    Line  of  descent.    Compiled 

by  Col.  H.  C.  Dudley.    Owned  by  Dean  Dudley. 
GENEALOGICAL  TABLE  of  the  Anglo-Saxon  line  of  kings  of  Eng- 
land.   Compiled  by  Col.  H.  C.  Dudley. 
COURT  SUIT  worn  by  Dudley  Cotton,  great  grandson  of  Gov. 

Joseph  Dudley.    Owned  by  Dudley  R.  Child. 
Two  WINE  GLASSES  that  belonged  to  Gov.  Joseph  Dudley,  and 

piece  of  embroidered  satin  from  his  wedding  coat.    Owned 

by  Dudley  R.  Child. 


LIST  OF  PERSONS  PRESENT  AT  THE  REUNION. 

J.  DOWNIE  ALBKEE,       .         .         .         Charlestown,        Mass. 

FLORENCE  M.  ADKINSON, 

JUNE  ADKINSON,    .         . 

GBENVILLE  M.  ATKINS, 

FRANK  W.  ATKINS, 

S.  H.  ATKINS, 

MRS.  HEPHSIBAII  HALL  BRADLEE, 

ARTHUR  F.  BENSON, 

MRS.  MARY  DUDLEY  BALDWIN, 

ALICE  MENDON  BROOKS, 

MARY  E.  BOYER, 

THOMAS  J.  BRADSTREET, 

THOMAS  DUDLEY  BRADSTREET,  . 

ALBERT  P.  BRADSTREET, 

EDWARD  THOMAS  BRADSTREET, 

HENRY  BALDWIN, 

ABBY  DUDLEY  BROWN, 

HOWARD  DUDLEY  BROWN,     . 


Medford, 

Salem, 

Andover, 

Brattleboro, 

Ashmore, 

Thomas  ton, 


Vt. 

111. 

Conn. 


Meriden,  " 

Boston,  Mass. 

West  Medford,        " 


24 


RECEPTION   AND   REUNION. 


MRS.  CATHERINE  A.  DUDLEY  BRAMBLE,  New  London, 

J.  D.  BARRY,     .....  Boston, 

ALETHEA  H.  BUFFUM,  .         .  Franklin  Park, 

DANA  PRESCOTT  BARTLETT,       .        .  Boston, 
C.  DUDLEY  BROWN,         ...  " 

MRS.  MARY  E.  BRIGHAM,          .         .  Lexington, 

EGBERT  T.  BABSON,       .         .         .  Gloucester, 

MRS.  MARY  L.  BABB,         .        .         .  Boston, 

MRS.  R.  L.  BULLARD,     .         .        .  Dorchester, 

ROBERT  BRADSTREET  BARTLETT,        .  Brookline, 

J.  G.  BARTLETT,     ....  Chestnut  Hill, 

EDWIN  N.  BINGHAM,          .         .         .  Hartford, 

MRS.  MARY  A.  L.  CLAPP,      .         .  Framingham, 
FANNIE  L.  CLAPP,      ....  " 

MELLEN  CHAMBERLAIN,          .         .  Chelsea, 

GEORGE  T.  CLARK,     ....  Muskegon, 

PAUL  DUDLEY  CHASE,    .         .        .  Boston, 
DR.  ELIZABETH  ABBOTT  CARLETON,  " 

JULIA  COGSWELL  CLARKE,     .        .  " 

EDITH  CHILD, " 

DUDLEY  RICHARDS  CHILD,     .         .  " 

JOHN  Q.  A.  CHANDLER,     .         .         .  Lexington, 
MRS.  SARAH  DUDLEY  WILLIAMS  CHANDLER,  " 


Conn. 
Mass. 


MRS.  HARRIET  A.  CURTIS, 
WILLIAM  BROOKS  CABOT, 
MRS.  MISSOURI  S.  CHILD,     . 
DR.  ALBION  M.  DUDLEY, 
THOMAS  W.  DUDLEY, 
CLARA  A.  DUDLEY, 
JENNIE  BUTLER  DUDLEY, 
FRANK  DUDLEY, 
ELBRIDGE  G.  DUDLEY, 
DEAN  DUDLEY, 
ELLA  SOPHIA  DUDLEY, 
HENRY  W.  DUDLEY, 
CHARLES  DUDLEY,          .    • 
MARY  DUDLEY, 
GEORGE  A.  DUDLEY, 
CHARLES  HOWARD  DUDLEY, 


Quincy, 
Lexington, 
Boston, 
Salem, 


Portland, 

Boston, 

Wakefield, 

Biddeford, 

Abington, 


Boston, 
Danvers, 


Conn. 
Mass. 


Mich. 
Mass. 


Me. 
Mass. 
u 

Me. 
Mass. 

H 

(I 


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25 


WILLIAM  HENRY  DUDLEY,     . 

F.  W.  DUDLEY,  . 

PALMER  DUDLEY, 

GEORGE  E.  DUDLEY,  .         .        , 

WARREN  P.  DUDLEY,     .     "  . 

SANFORD  H.  DUDLEY,        .        . 

ABBY  WELD  DUDLEY,     . 

EDWIN  C.  DUDLEY,    .         ,         . 

CHARLES  H.  DUDLEY,    .         . 

MRS.  CHARLES  H.  DUDLEY, 

MRS.  HELEN  M.  DUDLEY, 

HENRY  H.  DUDLEY,  .      •   .  ' 

ARIANA  S.  DUDLEY, 

L.  EDWIN  DUDLEY, 

MRS.  L.  EDWIN  DUDLEY, 

MRS.  ELBRIDGE  G.  DUDLEY, 

A.  PALMER  DUDLEY,  M.  D., 

ROSE  DUDLEY,  . 

HOWLAND  DUDLEY, 

ISABEL  IRVING  DUDLEY,    . 

MRS.  LAURA  N.  ROWLAND  DUDLEY, 

MARY  E.  DUDLEY,     . 

DANA  T.  DUDLEY, 

JAMES  WILLARD  DUDLEY, 

MRS.  CHARLES  F.  DUDLEY,     . 

ALBERTUS  T.  DUDLEY, 

FRANCIS  PERRY  DUDLEY, 

C.  D.  DUDLEY,  . 

FRANCIS  D.  DUDLEY, 

SUMNER  F.  DUDLEY, 

FREDERICK  A.  DUDLEY, 

ARABELLA  L.  DUDLEY, 

E.  GERTRUDE  DUDLEY, 

LAURA  HOWLAND  DUDLEY,        .      '  . 

JOHN  WARD  DEAN, 

MRS.  WILLIAM  B.  DUDLEY, 

SARAH  HALE  DAVIS, 

MARY  DOUGLAS  DAY, 

MARY  CHILD 


Whitman,  Mass. 

Brighton,  " 

Portland,  Me. 

Boston,  Mass. 

Cambridge,  " 

a  n 

Roxbury,  " 

Augusta,  Me. 

WoBurn,  Mass. 

«  « 

Roxbury,  " 

Boston,  Mass. 

Brentwood,  N.  H. 

Boston,  Mass. 

<t  « 

Boston,  Mass- 
New  York,  N.  Y. 
Wakefield,  Mass. 
Cambridge,  " 
Auburndale,  " 

Cambridge,  " 

a  <i 

Haverhill,  " 

Boston,  " 
East  Cambridge,      " 

Exeter,  N.  H. 

«  11 

Haverhill,  Mass. 

Orange,  N.  J. 

New  York,  N.  Y. 

«  a 

Dedham,  Mass. 

«  a 

Cambridge,  " 

Medford,  " 

Cambridge,  " 

West  Newton,  " 

East  Boston,  " 

Norfolk,  Conn. 


26 


RECEPTION   AND   REUNION. 


ROSE  L.  DEXTER,        .... 
ELIZABETH  A.  DOWNIE,  .         . 

NANCY  WOODBRIDGE  FAVOR,     .         . 
JAMES  H.  FULLER,         .         .         . 
MRS.  MARY  ELIOT  FARLEY,       .       '  . 
JAMES  P.  FARLEY,          ... 
E.  J.  DUDLEY  FENNO,     .  .         . 

CORNELIA  FROST,  .... 
J.  P.  FENNO,      .      *  .         .         .         . 
ELIAS  DUDLEY  FREEMAN,      .         . 
DANIEL  DUDLEY  GILBERT,  M.  D.,      . 
MRS.  AMELIA  AUGUSTA  GILBERT, 
ADA  A.  GILBERT,  ... 

HELEN  SEWALL  GILBERT,  .         . 

HARRIET  E.  HENSHAW,  .         . 

MRS.  EDGAR  HARDING,     .         .         . 
ALBERT  F.  HAYDEN,       .         .         . 
MRS.  ALBERT  F.  HAYDEN, 
MRS.  A.  HAMILTON,        .         .         . 
SARAH  T.  HAMILTON,        ... 
REV.  EDWARD  EVERETT  HALE,  D.  D., 
ORINDA  A.  DUDLEY  HORNBROOKE,   . 
REV.  FRANCIS  B.  HORNBROOKE,     . 
HENRY  A.  HUTCHINSON,    .         .         . 
HENRY  FRANCIS  HARRIS,       .         . 
EMMA  D.  HARRIS,      .... 
H.  A.  HUTCHINSON,        .         .         . 
CORNELIA  COLLINS  HUSSEY,      .         . 
FREDERICK  HUSSEY,       ... 
JAMES  H.  HUMPHREYS,      .         .         . 
MRS.  JAMES  H.  HUMPHREYS,         . 
AUGUSTINE  JONES,     .... 
SARAH  E.  D.  JELLESON,          .         . 
CAROLINE  DUDLEY  JOHNSON,     .         . 
HENRY  WELD  JOHNSON,         . 
H.  AUGUSTUS  JOHNSON,     ... 
MARY  LESLIE  JOHNSON,         .         . 
THEO.  M.  KOUES,       .         .         .         . 
GEORGE  ELLSWORTH  KOUES,  . 


Boston,  Mass. 

Charlestown,  " 

Waltham,  " 

Cambridgeport,  " 

Boston,  " 

"  " 

Milton,  " 

Boston,  " 

Milton,  " 

Yarmouth,  Me. 

Dorchester,  Mass. 


Leicester, 

Boston, 

Roxbury, 

" 
Dorchester, 


" 

Me. 
Mass. 


N.  J, 


R.  I. 
Me. 


Readfield, 
Worcester, 

" 

Walnut  Hill, 
E.  Orange, 

" 
Dorchester, 

" 

Providence, 
Biddeford, 


Jamaica  Plain,    Mass. 


New  York,  N.  Y, 

Elizabeth,  N.  J. 


RECEPTION    AND    REUNION. 


27 


LOUISE  WINTHROP  KOUES, 
ELIZABETH  L.  KOUES,     . 
CARKIS  L.  D.  KIMBALL,     . 

H.  F.   KlTTREDGE, 

CHARLES  DUDLEY  LEWIS, 
MRS.  CHARLES  L.  LANE,         .   . 
LAURA  WILDER  LANE, 
ELLEN  J.  LANE, 
CHARLES  C.  MORGAN, 
KATHARINE  BROOKS  .MARSHALL, 
MRS.  MARY  A.  MASON, 
PIERRE  McCoNviLLE 
MARY  E.  D.  MINICK, 
GEORGE  DUDLEY  MASON,        .  . 
MRS.  GEORGE  DUDLEY  MASON, 
FREDERIKA  B.  MASON,  . 

MRS.  SAMUEL  MASON, 
KATHARINE  L.  MORRILL, 
MARIETTA  MORRILL, 
MARY  MARQUAND, 
SARAH  W.  MAY,        .        ... 
GEORGE  W.  MAY,  .         .  . 

CLARA  ISABEL  METCALF,   . 
MARY  K.  MIXTER, 
JOSEPH  B.  MOORS,     . 
MARY  W.  NICHOLS,        .  -.     . 
DUDLEY  LEAVITT  PICKMAN, 
ELLEN  RODMAN  PICKMAN,     . 
Lucius  R.  PAIGK,  D.D., 
JOHN  DUDLEY  PERRY,    . 
MRS.  S.  A.  D.  PENHALLOW, 
EDWARD  J.  PEARSON,    . 
GRANVILLE  B.  PUTNAM,    . 
AUGUSTUS  PARKER, 
MRS.  AUGUSTUS  PARKER, 
MAY  PARKER, 
MARY  A.  PARKER,     . 
LAURIS  J.  PAGE,    . 
MRS.  LAURIS  J.  PAGE,      .    .     . 


New  York,  N.  Y. 

u  « 

Dorchester,  Mass. 

North  Andover,  " 
So.  Framingham,  " 
Boston,  " 

Brighton,  " 


Boston, 
Brattleboro, 
New  York, 
Bangor, 
Paris, 


Vt. 

N.  Y. 

Me. 

111. 


Cambridgeport,    Mass. 


Exeter,  N.  H. 

«<  1C 

New  York,  N.  Y. 

Dorchester,  Mass. 

«  K 

Boston,  " 


Asylum  Station,  " 

Beverly,  " 

«  a 

Cambridgeport,  " 

Biddeford,  Me. 

Montreal,  P.  Q. 

Hartford,  Conn. 

Boston,  Mass. 

Roxbury,  " 


Dorchester, 


28 


RECEPTION    AND    REUNION. 


HENRY  COLE  QUINBY,     .        .        .  Lakeport,  N.  H. 

HELEN  KOUES  EEYNOLDS,          .         .  Lancaster,  Pa. 

DUDLEY  EGBERTS,           .         .         .  Waltham,  Mass. 

WM.  CHARLES  KOGERS,      .         .         .  New  York,  N.  Y. 

JOSEPHINE  LOUISE  EICHARDS,        .  West  Medford,    Mass. 

PERCIVAL  DAVENPORT  EICHARDS,     .  .     "            "  " 

WILLIAM  S.  EUMRILL,  .         .         .  Eoxbury,  " 

SARAH  E.  EUMRILL,           ly.               .           "  " 

MRS.  WILLIAM  EUMRILL,        .                        "  " 

ELLEN  W.  EUMRILL,          .         .         .           "  " 

LUCY  DUDLEY  EUMRILL,         .         .  Lexington,  " 

GEORGE  EOPES,          .         .         .         .  Lincoln,  " 

HORACE  E.  STOWE,      .  .         .        .  Hudson,  " 

MRS.  HORACE  E.  STOWE,    .,..**  " 

ARTHUR  SEARLE,    ....  Cambridge,  " 

E.  W.  STEVENS,          .         .         .         .  Eoxbury,  " 
CAROLINE  PHELPS  STOKES,     . 
OLIVIA  EGLESTON  PHELPS  STOKES, 
CHARLES  EMERY  STEVENS, 
JOHN  A.  STAPLES, 
CHARLES  ANSON  SHELDON,     . 
WINTHROP  DUDLEY  SHELDON,    . 
OILMAN  H.  TUCKER,      .         .        . 
MARY  C.  TUCKER,      ....'< 

ANNA  ELIOT  TICKNOR,           .         .  Boston,  Mass, 

MARY  KINGSBURY  TALCOTT,      .         .  Hartford,  Conn. 

DUDLEY  TALBOT,            .         .         .  Boston,  Mass. 

AUGUSTA  E.  DUDLEY  TALBOT,  .         .  Dorchester,  " 

E.  H.  TURNER,       ....  Portland,  Me. 

ISAAC  NEWTON  TUCKER,    .         .         .  Allston,  Mass. 

MRS.  ISAAC  NEWTON  TUCKER,        .               "  " 

WALTER  BROWNELL  TUFTS,       .         .  New  York,  N.  Y. 

MARY  B.  WHITE,            .         .         .  Lawrence,  Mass. 

ISRAEL  H.  WASHBURN,     .         .         .  Portsmouth,  N.  H. 

JENNIE  FAVOR  WHEELER,      .         .  Lawrence,  Mass. 

JAMES  HENRY  WIGGIN,     .         .         .  Eoxbury,  " 

JAMES  BARTLETT  WIGGIN,     .        .  Boston,  " 

MRS.  J.  H.  WIGGIN,          ..."  " 

MRS.  C.  E.  WIGGIN,  JR.,        .  " 


New  York, 

N.  Y. 

u 

u 

Worcester, 

Mass. 

Chavlestown, 

u 

New  Haven, 

Conn. 

No.  Cambridge, 

Mass. 

New  York, 

N.  Y. 

RECEPTION    AND    REUNION. 

MRS.  A.  C.  WIGGTN,           .-'..«  •    Boston, 

CHARLES  E.  WIGGIN,     .         .  .         Boxbury ,_ 

ARTHUR  C.  WIGGIN,          .        .  .     Boston, 

S.  HOMER  WOODBRIDGE,        .  .              " 

WILLIAM  F.  WOODBRIDGE,        .  .     Cambridge, 

EMILY  M.  WOODBRIDGE,        .  .                 " 

SAMUEL  F.  WOODBRIDGE,           .  " 

BEV.  WARREN  S.  WOODBRIDGE,  .         Medford, 

MRS.  WARREN  S.  WOODBRIDGE,  .            " 

ELIZABETH  B.  WILLIS,  .         .  .         Somerville, 

HENRY  WILLIAMS,     .         »         .  .     Boston, 

CAROLINE  L.  WATSON,           ,  .         Boxbury, 

MAURICE  P.  WHITE,          .         .  .     Boston, 

LAURA  BRADSTREET  WHITE,  .         Boxbury, 

FRANKLIN  S.  WILLIAMS,            .  .             " 

MARY  E.  WILLIAMS,     '.  " 

SARA  E.  DUDLEY  WALWORK,    .  .     Salem, 

EDWARD  HAMILTON  WHITMAN,  .         Boston, 

JAMES  E.  WALKER,  M.  D.,        .  .     Brookline, 

LIZZIE  BIDGEWAY  WALKER,  .                 " 

LILA  BIDGEWAY  WALKER,         .  .            " 

MRS.  WILLIAM  E.  YOUNG,         .  .     Boxbury, 


29 

Mass. 


Dinner, 


After  several  hours  spent  in  social  intercourse,  in  the 
examination  of  the  relics,  heirlooms,  pictures,  manuscripts, 
ancient  clothing,  tankards,  and  many  other  memorials 
handed  down  in  the  various  lines  of  the  Dudley  family ; 
many  acquaintances  having  been  made  or  renewed  among 
the  descendants,  and  many  surprises,  too,  happening  where 
old  friends  then  for  the  first  time  learned  the  pleasing  fact 
that  they  were  of  the  same  distinguished  lineage,  the 
throngs  in  the  parlors  of  the  great  hotel  assembled  in  the 
large  dining  room  where  tables  had  been  set  for  them  ;  but 
the  great  throng  overflowed  into  the  adjoining  rooms  where 
tables  had  also  been  set  for  those  who  might  not  be  able  to 
find  places  at  the  principal  tables. 

As  the  great  assembly  stood  about  the  tables  the  presi- 
dent rapped  to  order  and  said:  "  I  will  ask  the  ladies  and 
gentlemen  to  remain  standing  a  few  moments." 

"  It  was  ever  the  custom  of  our  Puritan  ancestors  never 
to  embark  in  any  important  undertaking,  whether  of  a 
sober  or  of  a  festive  character,  without  invoking  the  assist- 
ance of  Divine  Providence.  Following  that  ancient  custom 
I  will  ask  Rev.  Dr..  Edward  Everett  Hale  to  invoke  the 
Divine  Blessing." 

After  grace  was  said,  all  were  invited  to  be  seated. 
Here  were  gathered  people  who  had  never  seen  each 
other  before,  distinguished  in  every  profession  and  walk  in 
life,  representatives  of  many  states  and  localities,  who  had 
come  from  far  and  near  to  celebrate  the  virtues  of  their 
great  ancestor.  Here  for  the  first  time  were  met  around 


THE    DINNER.  31 

the  family  board  those  who  bore  or  represented  a  great  and 
honorable  name.  Two  hundred  and  sixty-two  years  before, 
Thomas  Dudley  and  his  compeers  came  to  Boston,  laid  its 
foundations  and  gave  it  a  name,  and  now  in  happy  reunion 
his  descendants  gathered  in  his  honor.  And  as  one  looked 
about  the  assembly  it  was  from  something  more  than  a 
mere  fancy  that  family  resemblances  were  observed,  and 
that  the  reunion  seemed  to  become  more  and  more  a  reality. 
Thus,  for  an  hour  or  more,  the  assembly  remained  at  the 
tables,  comparing  notes,  tracing  near  or  distant  relation- 
ships, or  discussing  the  remarkable  exhibits  they  had  pre- 
viously examined  in  the  parlors,  or  wondering  why  such  a 
reunion  as  this  had  never  been  held  before,  meanwhile  giv- 
ing particular  attention  to  the  menu  set  before  them.  All 
were  pleased,  all  were  glad  that  now  at  last  they  were  met 
together. 


MENU. 
Blue  Points  on  Deep  Shell. 


Mock  Turtle  aux  Queenelles.  Consomm^  Royal. 

Boiled  Red  Snapper  &  la  Hollandaise. 
Potatoe  Natural.  Radishes. 


Sirloin  of  Beef  aux  Champignons. 

Young  Turkey,  Cranberry  Sauce. 
Browned  Potatoes.  Cauliflower.  Spinach. 

Chicken  Croquettes  aux  Petits  Pois. 

Princess  Fritters  au  Vanille. 

Baked  Macaroni  au  Parmesan. 


Lady  Pudding  with  Whipped  Cream. 
Golden  Cream.  Wine  Jelly. 

Candied  Oranges.  Trutti  Frutti. 

Ice  Cream.     Orange  Sherbet.     Assorted  Cake. 

Apples.  Pears.  Bananas.  Tokay  Grapes. 

Black  Coffee. 


32  THE    DINNER. 

After  the  tables  were  cleared  away,  the  president  again 
called  the  assembly  to  order  and  spoke  as  follows : 


PRESIDENT  S   SALUTATORY. 
Ladies  and  Gentlemen  : 

The  pleasing  duty  having  been  given  to  me  to  preside 
over  your  festivities  this  evening,  let  me  first  of  all  extend 
to  you  a  hearty  greeting  and  congratulate  you  all  upon 
this  auspicious  occasion.  Not  since  our  great  ancestor  be- 
queathed to  the  world  his  great  work  and  achievements, 
not  since  this  fair  land  was  a  wilderness  with  but  a  hamlet 
here,  or  at  Salem,  or  Pascataquack,  or  Pemaquid,  or  Ply- 
mouth, or  Aquidney  ;  not  since  Dudley  and  Winthrop  and 
Saltonstall,  Hugh  Peter,  John  Cotton  and  Endecott,  and 
Harry  Vane,  labored  and  prayed,  and  did  the  work  God 
gave  them  to  do  in  laying  deep  and  strong  the  foundations 
of  this  great  nation,  have  the  posterity  of  the  great  Puritan 
joined  in  taking  concerted  action  to  do  him  honor,  till  now. 

And  it  is  an  honorable  and  dutiful  service  we  do  in  thus 
commemorating  Dudley's  virtues  and  achievements.  We 
may  well  congratulate  ourselves  that  the  opportunity  is 
present  and  that  we  feel  a  pride  in  doing  the  service.  A 
man  of  birth,  of  culture  in  the  learning  of  the  day,  of  per- 
severance and  indomitable  will,  of  severe  integrity  and 
public  spirit,  of  special  adaptation  to  the  successful  man- 
agement of  affairs,  and  to  do  the  right  as  it  was  given  him 
to  see  it,  regardless  of  friend  or  foe,  such  was  the  man  we 
are  met  to  honor.  And  I  congratulate  you  that  such  was 
the  fact,  that  his  rivals  and  ofttimes  antagonists  always 
gave  him  that  meed  of  praise ;  for  Winthrop,  speaking  of 
the  dissensions  in  the  general  court  under  Bellingham's  ad- 
ministration, says,  "  These  continual  oppositions  and  delays, 
tending  to  the  hindrance  and  perverting  of  justice,  afforded 
much  occasion  of  grief  to  all  the  magistrates,  especially  to 
Mr.  Dudley,  who  being  a  very  wise  and  just  man,  and  one 


SALUTATOKY.  33 

that  would  not  be  trodden  under  foot  by  any  man,  took 
occasion  (alleging  his  age,  etc.)  to  tell  the  court  that  he 
was  resolved  to  leave  his  place,  and  therefore  desired  them 
against  the  next  court  of  elections  to  think  of  some  other. 
The  court  was  much  afflicted  with  it  and  much  entreated 
him,"  &c.  Indeed,  he  was  a  man 

"  Who  never  sold  the  truth  to  serve  the  hour, 
Nor  paltered  with  Eternal  God  for  power." 

He  was  the  man,  who  at  an  early  age,  scarcely  above 
that  of  a  stripling,  when  his  Queen  called  for  volunteers 
to  help  maintain  the  honor  and  dignity  of  her  crown  in 
Flanders,  and  no  volunteers  were  forthcoming,  stepped 
forth  at  the  call  of  duty,  and  because  he  did  it  others  fol- 
lowed in  such  numbers  that  he  was  at  once  surrounded  with 
a  body  of  men  whom  he  was  proud  to  command.  Who 
knows  what  thanks  the  great  Elizabeth  bestowed  upon  him 
and  his  fellows  in  arms?  Who  knows  what  valiant  deeds 
he  did  ?  Who  knows  how  much  his  country,  good  old 
England,  the  birthplace  and  home  of  great  men,  that  glo- 
rious soil  whence  we  all  have  sprung,  owed  and  owes  to 
him?  And  yet  I  am  aware  what  Cotton  Mather  says. 
Dudley  was  a  modest  man,  as  well  as  brave,  and  he  wrote 
no  letters,  or  diaries  or  histories,  in  the  sense  of  being  a 
writer  of  such,  and  so  we  shall  never  know.  Dudley 
deemed  it  unnecessary,  as  we  may  well  believe,  to  record 
his  own  good  deeds,  to  publish  his  own  praises,  or  to  write 
his  name  on  the  historic  page  of  the  country  he  sought  to 
found  and  to  build,  except,  indeed,  in  the  acts  he  did. 

It  has  been  recently  said  that  Columbus  was  not  a  writer 
of  letters  or  of  history,  that  Americus  Vespucius  was,  and 
that  thereby  people  who  were  ignorant  of  the  facts  (and 
they  could  not  well  be  otherwise),  were  led  to  suppose 
that  Americus  discovered  the  great  western  continent  be- 
cause he  could  write  a  few  letters  to  distinguished  persons 
about  his  achievements  there,  and  because  somebody  be- 
thought himself  to  make  a  sketch  of  the  new  continent 


34  SALUTATORY. 

and  to  write  thereon  the  word  America,  after  the  analogy 
of  Europa,  Asia,  Africa,  etc.,  while  the  great  discoverer 
who  found  the  way  to  the  new  world  and  pointed  it  out  to 
others,  Vespucius  among  them,  was  doomed  to  lose  the 
honor  of  affixing  his  name  to  a  great  continent  now  peopled 
by  so  many  millions.  And  thus,  while  we  sing,  "  Hail 
Columbia,"  we  can  only  do  so  as  Americans,  for  there  are 
no  Columbians  in  that  great  and  noble  sense. 

I  said  Dudley  was  not  a  letter  writer.  He  did  write 
one  famous  letter,  so  terse,  so  clear,  so  modest,  and  yet  so 
truthful,  that  it  has  furnished  historians  an  original  author- 
ity on  the  facts  there  recorded,  which  no  historical  contro- 
versy has  ever  touched.  One  taste  of  that  compels  us  to 
wish  for  more,  and  to  regret  that  the  history  of  that  day 
and  of  New  England's  beginnings  is  found  substantially 
within  the  covers  of  one  book. 

Would  that  we  had  a  history  of  that  far-a-way  time 
written  by  Dudley's  pen,  with  the  garrulities  and  super- 
fluities of  other  writers  left  out ;  clear  and  direct,  as  his 
character  was ;  and  some  of  the  controversies  which  still 
exist  would  never  have  existed.  Would  that  we  had  a 
history  of  that  time  written  by  some  other,  impartial  pen, 
as  we  have  not,  handing  down  to  us  in  the  present  a  rec- 
ord of  the  events  of  that  day,  untinged  and  uncolored  by 
the  transmitted  prejudices  and  caprices  and  credulities  of 
so  many  of  our  forefathers.  But  I  forget.  We  may  hear 
something  of  that  kind  here  to-night. 

I  have  already  referred  to  Dudley's  independence  of 
spirit,  even  when  the  expression  of  it  meant,  or  might 
have  meant,  loss  of  official  position  and  power.  I  might 
call  your  attention  to  other  instances  of  the  same  kind,  for 
he  was  compelled  more  than  once  by  his  high  sense  of 
duty  and  by  his  self-respect  to  decline  responsibility  for 
the  policy  demanded  or  about  to  be  pursued.  A  way  was 
always  found  to  comply  with  the  conditions  he  imposed, 
which  was  the  invariable  result  of  the  expression  of  his 
strong  will. 


SALUTATORY.  35 

It  is  clear  that  for  some  reason  or  other  Dudley  had  a 
place  in  the  hearts  of  the  people,  and  that  they  would  not 
permit  themselves  to  forego  his  great  services  in  their  be- 
half. And  the  reason  is  not  far  to  seek.  We  may  well 
believe  his  friend  and  rival  when  he  says  that  Dudley  "was 
a  man  of  approved  wisdom  and  godliness,  and  of  much 
good  service  to  the  country,  and  therefore  it  was  his  due  to 
share  in  such  honor  and  benefit  as  the  country  had  to  be- 
stow." No  wonder  that  he  was  in  the  service  of  his  coun- 
try for  twenty-three  years  continuously,  from  the  very  birth 
of  the  colony  till  age  and  its  infirmities  forbade  such  service 
longer.  From  1630  to  1653  he  was  either  governor,  dep- 
uty governor  or  assistant.  He  died  in  1653  at  the  age  of 
76,  only  two  months  after  his  last  official  year  expired. 

Such  is  his  public  record.  There  is  none  other  like  it 
among  the  men  of  that  early  day,  nor  is  there  to-day. 
Meantime,  when  the  colony  was  in  difficulty  or  danger 
from  the  French  on  the  east,  or  from  the  Indian  tribes  or 
the  Dutch  on  the  west,  who  was  it  whose  wisdom  and  dis- 
cretion and  experience,  whose  strong  will  and  decisiveness 
were  needed  to  meet  the  situation  and  deal  with  it  effec- 
tively? Who  was  it  who  took  a  leading  part  in  that 
earlier  confederation  of  the  colonies,  precursor  and  example 
of  that  later  confederation  of  states  which  we  now  call  the 
United  States  of  America  ?  Need  I  name  the  name  of 
Dudley  ?  Three  times  was  he  a  member  of  the  commis- 
sion which  had  to  do  with  the  affairs  of  the  confederacy 
while  deputy-governor  of  the  colony  of  Massachusetts 
Bay.  Twice  was  he  president  of  that  commission  or,  if 
you  please,  president  of  the  United  Colonies.  No  other 
man  of  Massachusetts  Bay  was  called  to  that  presidency  a 
greater  number  of  times,  except  his  son-in-law,  Simon 
Bradstreet. 

I  think  I  have  shown  you  something  of  the  great  public 
service  our  great  ancestor  did,  and  I  know  that  in  this 
presence  I  may  speak  directly  and  frankly  on  that  ques- 


36  SALUTATOEY. 

tion.  We  shall,  I  trust,  hear  something  more  about  it 
this  evening.  I  would  gladly  pursue  this  theme  longer, 
but  time  fails  me,  and  I  must  leave  it  to  better  hands. 

I  have  already  touched  upon  Dudley's  private  virtues. 
He  was  a  man  of  such  directness,  precision  and  strict 
integrity,  that  he  abhorred  any  base  act,  any  time-serving 
or  tergiversation.  He  was  a  man  who  might  well  have 
been  the  author  of  the  saying,  "  millions  for  defence,  not 
a  farthing  for  tribute."  If  he  made  a  bargain  he  expected 
to  perform  it;  and  what  is  more,  he  expected  the  other 
party  to  do  likewise.  Doubtless  his  exactness  seemed  hard 
at  times,  but  it  was  the  exactness  of  honesty  and  integrity, 
not  of  the  man  who  desires  to  obtain  an  advantage  ;  and 
all  business  experience  shows  that  his  rule  was  the  right  one. 
His  great  wisdom  in  private  and  domestic  affairs  is  illus- 
trated by  his  advice  to  a  son-in-law,  and  I  quote  a  single 
expression  :  "  Every  man  ought,  as  I  take  it,  to  serve  God 
in  such  a  way  whereto  he  hath  best  fitted  him  by  nature, 
education  or  gifts,  or  graces  acquired."  The  letter  in 
which  this  wise  saying  is  found  is  addressed,  "  To  my  very 
loving  son,  Mr.  John  Woodbridge,  at  his  house  in  New 
bury." 

It  ill  becomes  me,  as  your  presiding  officer,  to  trespass 
upon  your  patience  longer  in  dwelling  on  this  delightful 
theme.  You  desire  to  hear  the  speakers  of  the  evening, 
not  me.  But  do  I  need  to  apologize  for  thus  taking  a  few 
moments  of  your  time  ?  Do  I  need  to  apologize  for  speak- 
ing somewhat  in  terms  of  eulogy  on'  the  theme  of  the 
evening  ?  Let  any  man  go  to  the  fountains  of  authority 
and  analyze  the  facts  there  recorded,  fairly  examine  the 
springs  of  human  action,  impartially  compare  fact  with 
fact,  event  with  event,  and  take  into  account  the  rivalries 
and  partisanship  of  that  ancient  time,  and  I  will  challenge 
him  to  contradict  me.  Let  me  assure  you,  without  the 
slighest  reservation,  that  you  have  a  grand  theme  to  con- 
sider and  to  discuss. 


SALUTATORY.  37 

I  will  not  weary  your  patience  longer,  but  will  proceed 
at  once  to  introduce  to  you  the  speakers  of  the  evening. 

But  our  first  duty  is  to  the  Commonwealth,  and  I  will 
read  to  you  a  letter  from  His  Excellency,  the  latest  succes- 
sor of  Governor  Dudley. 

COMMONWEALTH  OF  MASSACHUSETTS,  ) 

EXECUTIVE  DEPARTMENT,  BOSTON,  Oct.  ist,  1892.  £ 

S.  H.  DUDLEY,  ESQ.,  95  MILK  ST.,  BOSTON,  MASS. 
My  Dear  Mr.  Dudley  : 

I  have  received  your  kind  invitation  to  attend  the  reunion  of 
the  descendants  of  Gov.  Thomas  Dudley,  on  Oct.  25th.  I  regret 
exceedingly  to  say  that  imperative  engagements  at  that  time 
will  prevent  my  being  with  you.  Were  it  not  for  this,  I  gladly 
would  accept  your  invitation  to  meet  the  descendants  of  one  of 
the  earliest  and  most  distinguished  of  the  Colonial  Governors. 
Wishing  a  pleasant  reunion  to  you  all,  I  am, 

Very  truly  yours, 

WM.  E.  RUSSELL. 

In  response  to  an  invitation,  the  Lieutenant-Governor 
sends  the  following : 

COMMONWEALTH  OF  MASSACHUSETTS,  f 

EXECUTIVE  DEPARTMENT,  BOSTON,  OCT.  igth,  1892.  > 

MR.  S.  H.  DUDLEY,  95  MILK  ST.,  BOSTON,  MASS. 
My  Dear  Sir : 

I  am  in  receipt  of  your  very  kind  letter  of  Oct.  i8th,  inviting 
me  to  be  present  at  the  reunion  of  the  descendants  of  Gov. 
Thomas  Dudley,  on  the  25th  inst.  I  regret  extremely  to  say 
that  owing  to  an  important  engagement  for  that  day  it  will  be 
impossible  for  me  to  be  present. 

Please  to  express  to  his  descendants  my  sincere  regret  that  I 
cannot  be  with  them,  and  my  best  wishes  for  a  most  enjoyable 
evening  to  you  all.  Thanking  you  for  your  kind  invitation,  I  am, 

Very  truly  yours, 

WILLIAM  H.  HAILE. 

Some  months  since  I  had  the  great  pleasure  of  listening 
to  a  gentleman  who  gave  a  brief  essay  on  one  or  two 


38  ADDEESS   BY  JOSEPH   B.   MOORS. 

episodes  in  the  life  of  Governor  Thomas  Dudley.  It  was 
so  excellent  and  so  appreciative  that  the  ladies  and  gentle- 
men having  in  charge  the  proper  arrangements  for  this 
evening  had  no  difficulty,  among  the  able  and  competent 
students  of  our  early  history,  in  selecting  him  to  make  the 
principal  address  of  this  occasion.  That  he  is  able  to  en- 
tertain and  to  instruct  us  goes  without  saying,  when  I 
mention  to  you  that  he  is  a  lineal  descendant  of  Ann 
Bradstreet,  daughter  of  Governor  Dudley,  and  wife  of  a 
man,  who,  like  Dudley,  occupied  a  great  place  in  the  his- 
tory of  the  colony. 

I   now   have   the    pleasure   of  presenting  to  you,    Mr. 
Joseph  B.  Moors  of  Boston. 


3oeepb  B,  flDoors, 


We  have  met  together  this  evening,  the  descendants  of 
a  common  ancestor,  one  whom  Professor  Fiske  has  seen  fit 
to  describe  in  his  "  Beginnings  of  New  England,  "  recently 
published,  as  one  whose  Puritanism  "  was  bleak  and  stern," 
and  who  "  for  Christian  charity  was  not  eminent" — Thomas 
Dudley,  Second  Governor  of  Massachusetts.  And  Pro- 
fessor Fiske,  doubtless  not  contemplating  this  gathering, 
has  been  good  enough  to  add  that  the  history  of  Dudley's 
family  in  the  old  country,  as  well  as  in  New  England,  has 
not  been  altogether  creditable.  For  myself,  I  shall  at- 
tempt no  argument  as  to  this  latter  statement,  but  as  to 
the  former,  that  Governor  Thomas  Dudley  was  a  stern  and 
bleak  character,  and  "  not  eminent  for  Christian  charity,  " 
and  one  for  whom  "  it  is  much  easier  to  entertain  respect 
than  affection,"  I  will  say,  that  what  researches  I  have 
been  able  to  make  have  given  me  a  constantly  deeper 
sense  of  this  man's  worth,  of  his  courage,  steadfastness, 


ADDRESS   BY  JOSEPH  B.   MOOES.  39 

good  sense,  loyalty,  and  of  that  calmness  which  came  to 
the  best  of  the  Puritans  with  their  faith  in  Almighty  God. 
And  I  look  forward  with  eagerness  to  the  time  when  <the 
life  and  public  services  of  this  common  ancestor  of  ours 
may  be  carefully  studied  and  adequately  presented  to  us 
by  a  competent  hand,  for  I  am  confident  that  any  petty 
slurs  upon  his  memory  will  be  found  to  have  very  little  to 
support  them.  Indeed,  I  am  sure,  that  he  will  then  be  re- 
garded as  one  of  the  noble  figures  who  have  done  most  to 
give  character  to  our  American  history. 

But  let  us  pause  for  a  moment  and  examine  Mr.  Fiske's 
source  of  information  with  regard  to  Governor  Dudley's 
character.  He  says  that  the  man's  character — his  "nar- 
row-minded, straight-laced  Calvinism,"  and  the  rest — is 
plainly  visible  in  his  portrait,  and  he  goes  .on  to  compare 
this  portrait,  very  much  to  its  discredit,  with  that  of  Gov- 
ernor John  Winthrop.  The  genuineness  of  the  likeness 
he  appears,  however,  to  have  taken  no  pains  to  verify. 
Now  it  appears  that  the  portrait  to  which  he  refers  is  that 
of  a  person  represented  as  wearing  a  large,  curly  dress 
wig,  whereas  no  one  should  know  better  than  Mr.  Fiske 
that  in  the  days  of  narrow-minded,  straight-laced  Calvin- 
ism, of  which  he  says  that  Governor  Dudley  was  typical, 
there  was  nothing  that  the  Puritans  detested  more  than  a 
dress  wig.  They  were  Round  Heads.  It  is  plainly 
improper  that  the  public,  and  particularly  that  we,  his 
descendants,  should  base  our  estimate  of  the  character  of 
Thomas  Dudley,  upon  the  size  of  the  nose,  or  the  color  of 
the  eyes,  of  a  portrait  clearly  that  of  another  man,  painted 
many  years  after  Governor  Dudley's  death,  and  dressed  in 
a  wig  which  the  worthy  governor  would  have  abominated, 
without  being  half  so  "  bleak  and  stern "  as  Professor 
Fiske  would  have  us  believe. 

The  truth  is,  that  no  portrait  or  other  contemporaneous 
representation  of  Governor  Dudley  remains  to  us.  Should 
we,  however,  desire  one,  we  might  follow  the  example  of 


40  ADDRESS   BY  JOSEPH   B.   MOOES. 

the  State  of  Connecticut  when  erecting  recently  a  statue 
in  their  State  capitol  in  honor  of  Thomas  Hooker,  a  con- 
temporary and  friend  of  Governor  Dudley.  In  order  to 
obtain  a  representation  of  the  face,  they  compared  the 
likenesses  of  various  widely-separated  members  of  Hooker's 
lineal  posterity.  Among  ourselves,  I  am  quite  sure  you 
will  all  agree  with  me,  that,  though  the  history  of  our 
family  may  not  have  been  "  altogether  creditable,"  still  we 
might,  if  we  followed  the  ingenious  method  of  the  State 
of  Connecticut,  obtain  a  most  flattering  picture  of  the  face 
of  Governor  Dudley. 

Thomas  Dudley,  second  Governor  of  Massachusetts,  was 
descended  from  a  noble  family  of  that  name  in  England, 
the  ruins  -of  whose  castle  may  now  be  seen  in  Stafford- 
shire. He  was  born  in  1576,  probably  in  Northampton, 
England,  at  any  rate  it  was  here  that  he  spent  his  early 
years.  He  was  fifty-three  years  old  when  leaving  for 
America,  and  appears  to  have  been  in  the  prime  of  vigor- 
ous manhood. 

During  the  days  preceding  the  immigration  from  Eng- 
land, of  our  Puritan  forefathers,  while  the  Puritans  as 
such  were  still  forbidden  to  worship  and  could  not  legally 
hold  office,  while  it  was  heresy  not  to  conform  t®  the 
usages  and  ceremonies  of  the  established  church,  these 
descentors  found  a  devoted  friend  in  the  Earl  of  Lincoln, 
and  it  was  under  the  patronage  of  this  distinguished 
Nobleman  that  we  first  hear  distinctly  of  Thomas  Dudley 
hi  connection  with  the  undertaking  that  led  to  planting  a 
colony  in  New  England. 

He  was  plainly  a  man  of  some  social  position,  and  he 
had  shown  himself  a  man  of  ability  by  freeing  the  Earl's 
estate  from  the  heavy  debt,  for  the  time,  of  twenty  thousand 
pounds,  a  legacy  left  by  the  excesses  of  the  Earl's  father. 
That  he  was  a  man  of  education,  is  suggested  by  the  fact 
that  in  his  boyhood  five  hundred  pounds  were  left  in  trust 
for  his  tuition  by  an  unknown  hand,  and  that  he  was  also 


ADDRESS   BY   JOSEPH   B.   MOOBS.  41 

known  to  be  a  good  Latin  scholar,  and  by  the  further  fact 
that  at  one  time  he  studied  law  with  a  relative,  an  eminent 
jurist  of  his  day.  That  he  was  a  man  of  war  is  shown  by 
his  having  abandoned  the  practice  of  the  law  before  enter- 
ing the  service  of  the  Earl  of  Lincoln,  and  by  his  becoming 
a  captain  in  Her  Majesty's,  Queen  Elizabeth's  service. 

An  interesting  account  of  Dudley's  life  prior  to  his 
embarking  for  New  England,  is  to  be  found  in  the  record 
of  the  Council  for  New  England.  His  good  judgment 
and  his  strength  of  character  are  therein  clearly  shown, 
and  his  importance  to  the  Earl  of  Lincoln.  The  story 
states  that  Dudley  was  to  the  Earl  of  Lincoln  very  much 
what  Joseph  had  been  to  Pharaoh  in  Egypt,  for  not  only 
during  a  nine  years'  stewardship  did  he  free  the  Earl's 
estate  from  a  heavy  debt,  as  already  remarked,  but  he  was 
of  the  utmost  service  to  that  hot-headed  nobleman  in  dis- 
suading him  from  going  over  into  Germany  with  Count 
Mansfelt  upon  an  ill-advised  expedition  for  the  recovery  of 
the  palatinate. 

August  26th,  1629,  Dudley,  with  the  others,  signed  in  a 
hall  of  the  venerable  University  of  Cambridge,  in  Eng- 
land an  agreement  that  they  would  be  ready  with  their 
families  to  emigrate  to  America  the  following  Spring. 

When  the  emigration  to  America  was  proposed,  Dudley 
was  made  one  of  the  undertakers  of  the  enterprise,  and  was 
soon  after  chosen  Deputy  Governor. 

He  was,  indeed,  the  business  man  of  the  proposed  colony, 
and  from  what  we  know  of  his  life  in  England,  we  can 
easily  perceive  his  fitness  to  be  the  undertaker  of  such  an 
enterprise.  In  his  immediate  circle  of  emigrants  were  to 
be  found  such  leading  persons  as  Lady  Arbella,  daughter 
of  the  Earl  of  Lincoln,  and  Isaac  Johnson,  her  husband, 
the  richest  man  among  the  colonists,  and  Rev.  John 
Wilson,  their  minister,  and  two  or  three  years  later  Mr. 
John  Haynes  and  Rev.  Thomas  Hooker,  both  leading  men 
among  the  Puritan  Colonies,  came  out  as  his  guests. 


42  ADDRESS   BY  JOSEPH   B.   MOORS. 

The  story  of  his  first  year  in  the  colony  is  told  in  a  most 
frank  and  interesting  manner  by  himself  in  a  letter  to  the 
Countess  of  Lincoln,  dated  Boston,  March  the  12th,  1631, 
nine  months  after  their  arrival  in  Salem.  I  would  ask  you 
to  let  me  read  a  portion  of  this  letter  to  you  as  furnishing 
not  only  the  best  contemporary  description  of  the  early  life 
of  the  colony,  but  as  giving  you  an  insight,  between  the 
lines,  into  the  character  of  Dudley  himself. 

GOVERNOR  DUDLEY'S  LETTER  TO  THE  COUNTESS  OF  LJNCOLN. 
To  the  Right  Honourable,  my  very  good  Lady,  the  Lady  Bridget, 
Countess  of  Lincoln, 

Madam : 

Your  letters  (which  are  not  common  nor  cheap)  following  me 
hither  into  New  England,  and  bringing  with  them  renewed  tes- 
timonies of  the  accustomed  favours  you  honored  me  with  in  the 
old,  have  drawn  from  me  this  narrative  retribution,  which  (in 
respect  of  your  proper  interest  in  some  persons  of  great  note 
amongst  us)  was  the  thankfullest  present  I  had  to  send  over  the 
seas. 


For  the  satisfaction  of  your  Honour,  and  some  friends,  and  for 
the  use  of  such  as  shall  hereafter  intend  to  increase  our  planta- 
tion in  New  England,  I  have  in  the  throng  of  domestick,  and  not 
altogether  free  from  publick  business,  thought  fit  to  commit  to 
memory  our  present  condition,  and  what  hath  befallen  us  since 
our  arrival  here ;  which  I  will  do  shortly,  after  my  usual  manner, 
and  must  do  rudely,  having  yet  no  table,  nor  other  room  to 
write  in,  than  by  the  fire-side  upon  my  knee,  in  this  sharp  winter ; 
to  which  my  family  must  have  leave  to  resort,  though  they  break 
good  manners  and  make  me  many  times  forget  what  I  would 
say,  and  say  what  I  would  not. 

Our  four  ships  which  set  out  in  April,  arrived  here  in  June  and 
July,  where  we  found  the  colony  in  a  sad  and  unexpected  condi- 
tion, above  eighty  of  them  being  dead  the  winter  before ;  and 
many  of  those  alive,  weak  and  sick ;  all  the  corn  and  bread 
amongst  them  all  hardly  sufficient  to  feed  them  a  fortnight ; 
insomuch  that  the  remainder  of  an  hundred  and  eighty  servants 
we  had  the  two  years  before  sent  over,  coming  to  us  for  victuals 


ADDRESS   BY   JOSEPH  B.   MOORS.  43 

to  sustain  them,  we  found  ourselves  wholly  unable  to  feed  them, 
by  reason  that  the  provisions  shipped  for  them  were  taken  out 
of  the  ship  they  were  put  in  ;  and  they  who  were  trusted  to  ship 
them  in  another,  failed  us,  and  left  them  behind ;  whereupon 
necessity  enforced  us  to  our  extreme  loss,  to  give  them  all 
liberty ;  who  had  cost  us  about  sixteen  or  twenty  pound  a  per- 
son, furnishing  and  sending  over.  But  bearing  these  things  as 
we  might,  we  began  to  consult  of  the  place  of  our  sitting  down. 


And  thereupon  unshipped  our  goods  into  other  vessels,  and 
with  much  cost  and  labor,  brought  them  in  July  to  Charlestown. 


Some  at  Charlestown,  which  standeth  on  the  north  side  of  the 
mouth  of  Charles  river ;  some  on  the  south  side  thereof,  which 
place  we  named  Boston  (as  we  intended  to  have  done  the  place 
we  first  resolved  on). 


Before  the  departure  of  the  ships,  we  contracted  with  Mr. 
Peirce,  master  of  the  Lion  of  Bristol,  to  return  to  us  with  all 
speed,  with  fresh  supplies  of  victuals  and  gave  him  directions 
accordingly ;  with  this  ship  returned  Mr.  Revil,  one  of  the  five 
undertakers  here,  for  the  joint  stock  of  the  company ;  Mr. 
Vassal,  one  of  the  assistants  and  his  family  ;  and  also  Mr. 
Bright,  a  minister  sent  hither  the  year  before ;  the  ship  being 
gone,  victuals  wasting,  and  mortality  increasing,  we  held  diverse 
fasts  in  our  several  congregations,  but  the  Lord  would  not  yet  be 
deprecated  ;  for  about  the  middle  of  September  died  Mr.  Gager, 
a  right  Godly  man,  a  skillful  chyrurgeon,  and  one  of  the  deacons 
of  our  congregation.  And  Mr.  Higginson,  one  of  the  ministers 
of  Salem,  a  zealous  and  a  profitable  preacher;  this  of  a 
consumption,  that  of  a  fever.  And  on  the  3oth  of  September 
died  Mr.  Johnson,  another  of  the  five  undertakers  (the  Lady 
Arbella,  his  wife,  being  dead  a  month  before).  This  gentleman 
was  a  prime  man  amongst  us,  having  the  best  estate  of  any ; 
zealous  for  religion,  and  the  greatest  furtherer  of  this  planta- 
tion ;  he  made  a  most  Godly  end,  dying  willingly,  professing  his 
life  better  spent  in  promoting  this  plantation  than  it  could  have 
been  any  other  way.  He  left  to  us  a  loss  greater  than  the  most 
conceived. 


44  ADDRESS   BY  JOSEPH  B.   MOORS. 


And  of  the  people  who  came  over  with  us,  from  the  time  of 
their  setting  sail  from  England,  in  April,  1630,  until  December 
following,  there  died  by  estimation  about  two  hundred  at  the 
least ;  so  low  hath  the  Lord  brought  us.  Well,  yet  they  who  sur- 
vived were  not  discouraged,  but  bearing  God's  corrections  with 
humility,  and  trusting  in  his  mercies ;  and  considering  how  after 
a  lower  ebb  he  had  raised  up  our  neighbors  at  Plymouth. 


I  should  before  have  mentioned  how  both  the  Indian  and 
English  corn,  being  at  ten  shillings  a  strike,  and  bever  being 
valued  at  six  shillings  a  pound ;  we  made  laws  to  restrain  the 
selling  of  corn  to  the  Indians,  and  to  leave  the  price  of  bever  at 
liberty,  which  was  presently  sold  at  ten  and  twenty  shillings  a 
pound.  I  should  also  have  remembered  how  the  half  of  our 
cowes,  and  almost  all  our  mares  and  goats,  sent  us  out  of 
England,  died  at  sea  in  their  passage  hither ;  and  that  those 
intended  to  be  sent  us  out  of  Ireland,  were  not  sent  at  all ;  all 
which,  together  with  the  loss  of  our  six  months'  building,  occa- 
sioned by  our  intended  removal  to  a  town  to  be  fortified,  weak- 
ened our  estates,  especially  the  estates  of  the  undertakers,  who 
were  three  or  four  thousand  pounds  engaged  in  the  joint  stock, 
which  was  now  not  above  so  many  hundreds  ;  yet  many  of  us- 
labored  to  bear  it  as  comfortably  as  we  could,  remembering  the 
end  of  our  coming  hither,  and  knowing  the  power  of  God,  who- 
can  support  and  raise  us  again  ;  and  useth  to  bring  his  servants 
low  that  the  meek  may  be  made  glorious  by  deliverance'. 

I  have  no  leisure  to  review  and  incert  things  forgotten,  but  out 
of  due  time  in  order,  must  set  them  down  as  they  come  to 
memory.  About  the  end  of  October,  this  year,  1630,  I  joined 
with  the  governor  and  Mr.  Maverick,  in  sending  out  our  pinace 
to  the  Narragansetts,  to  trade  for  corn,  to  supply  our  wants ;  but 
after  the  pinace  had  doubled  Cape  Cod,  she  put  into  the  next 
harbour  she  found,  and  there  meeting  with  Indians,  who  showed 
their  willingness  to  truck ;  she  made  her  voyage  there  and 
brought  us  an  hundred  bushels  of  corn,  at  about  four  shillings 
a  bushel,  which  helped  us  something.  From  the  coast  where 
they  traded  they  saw  a  very  large  island,  four  leagues  to  the 
East,  which  the  Indians  commended  as  a  fruitful  place,  full  of 
good  vines,  and  free  from  sharp  frosts,  having  one  only  entrance 
into  it,  by  a  navigable  river,  inhabited  by  a  few  Indians,  which,. 


ADDKESS   BY  JOSEPH  B.   MOORS.  45 

for  a  trifle,  would  leave  the  island,  if  the  English  would  set 
them  upon  the  main  ;  but  the  pinace  having  no  direction  for  dis- 
covery, returned  without  failing  to  it,  which  in  two  hours  they 
might  have  done.  Upon  this  coast  they  found  store  of  vines 
full  of  grapes  dead  ripe,  the  season  being  past ;  wither  we  pro- 
posed to  send  the  next  year  sooner,  to  make  some  small  quantity 
of  wine,  if  God  enabled  us  ;  the  vines  growing  thin  with  us,  and 
we  not  having  yet  any  leisure  to  plant  vineyards. 

But  now  having  some  leisure  to  discourse  of  the  motives  for 
other  men  coming  to  this  place,  or  their  abstaining  from  it ;  after 
my  brief  manner,  I  say  this :  That  if  any  come  hither  to  plant  for 
worldly  ends  that  can  live  well  at  home,  he  commits  an  error  of 
which  he  will  soon  repent  him  ;  but  if  for  spiritual,  and  that  no 
particular  obstacle  hinder  his  removal,  he  may  find  here  what 
may  well  content  him,  viz.,  Materials  to  build,  fewel  to  burn,  and 
ground  to  plant,  seas  and  rivers  to  fish  in,  a  pure  air  to  breathe, 
good  water  to  drink,  till  wine  or  beer  can  be  made ;  which 
together  with  the  cowes,  hoggs  and  goats  brought  here  already, 
may  suffice  for  food;  as  for  fowl  and  venison,  they  are  dainties 
here  as  well  as  in  England.  For  cloaths  and  bedding,  they  must 
bring  them  with  them,  till  time  and  industry  produce  them  here. 
In  a  word,  we  yet  enjoy  little  to  be  envied  but  endure  much  to 
be  pitied  in  the  sickness  and  mortality  of  our  people.  And  I 
do  the  more  willingly  use  this  open  and  plain  dealing,  least  other 
men  should  fall  short  of  their  expectations,  when  they  come 
hither,  as  we  to  our  great  prejudice  did ;  by  means  of  letters 
sent  us  from  hence  into  England  ;  wherein  honest  men,  out  of  a 
desire  to  draw  over  others  to  them,  wrote  somewhat  hyperbol- 
ically  of  many  things  here  ;  if  any  godly  men  out  of  religious 
ends  will  come  over,  to  help  us  in  the  good  work  we  are  about; 
I  think  they  cannot  dispose  of  themselves,  nor  of  their  estates 
more  to  God's  glory,  and  the  furtherance  of  their  own  reckoning ; 
but  they  must  not  be  of  the  poorer  sort  yet,  for  divers  years. 
For  we  have  found  by  experience  that  they  have  hindered,  not 
furthered  the  work ;  and  for  profane  and  debauched  persons, 
their  oversight  in  coming  hither  is  wondered  at,  where  they  shall 
find  nothing  to  content  them. 

If  there  be  any  endued  with  grace,  and  furnished  with  means 
to  feed  themselves  and  theirs  for  eighteen  months,  and  to  build 
and  plant,  let  them  come  into  our  Macedonia  and  help  us,  and 
not  spend  themselves  and  their  estates  in  a  less  profitable  em- 
ployment ;  for  other,  I  conceive  they  are  not  yet  fitted  for  this 
business. 


46  ADDRESS   BY  JOSEPH   B.    MOORS. 

Touching  the  discouragement  which  the  sickness  and  mortal- 
ity which  every  first  year  hath  seized  upon  us,  and  those  of 
Plymouth,  as  appeareth  before,  may  give  to  such  who  have  cast 
any  thoughts  this  way  (of  which  mortality  it  may  be  said  of  us 
almost  as  of  the  Egyptians,  that  there  is  not  an  house  where 
there  is  not  one  dead,  and  in  some  houses  many),  the  natural 
causes  seem  to  be,  the  want  of  warm  lodging  and  good  diet,  to 
which  Englishmen  are  habituated  at  home  ;  and  in  the  sudden 
increase  of  heat,  which  they  endure  that  are  landed  here  in 
summer ;  the  salt  meats  at  sea  having  prepared  their  bodies 
thereto  ;  for  those  only  these  two  last  years  died  of  fevers  who 
landed  in  June  and  July  ;  as  those  of  Plymouth,  who  landed  in 
winter,  died  of  the  scurvy ;  as  did  our  poorer  sort,  whose  hous- 
ing and  bedding  kept  them  not  sufficiently  warm,  nor  their  diet 
sufficiently  in  heart ;  other  causes  God  may  have,  as  our  faithful 
minister,  Mr.  Wilson  (lately  handling  that  point)  shewed  unto 
us  ;  which  I  forbear  to  mention,  leaving  this  matter  to  the  further 
dispute  of  physicians  and  divines. 


The  ship  now  waits  but  for  wind,  \\hich  when  it  blows  these 
are  ready  to  go  aboard  therein  for  England,  Sir  Richard  Salton- 
stall,  Mr.  Sharp,  Mr.  Coddington  and  many  others ;  the  most 
whereof  purpose  to  return  to  us  again  if  God  wills.  In  the 
mean  time,  we  are  left  a  people  poor  and  contemptible,  yet  such 
as  trust  in  God ;  and  are  contented  with  our  condition,  being 
well  assured  that  he  will  not  fail  us  or  forsake  us.  I  had  almost 
forgotten  to  add  this,  that  the  wheat  we  received  by  this  last 
ship  stands  us  in  thirteen  or  fourteen  shillings  a  strike,  and  the 
pease  about  eleven  shillings  a  strike,  beside  the  adventure,  which 
is  worth  three  or  four  shillings  a  strike ;  which  is  an  higher  price 
than  I  ever  tasted  bread  of  before. 

Thus,  Madam,  I  have  as  I  can,  told  your  honor  all  our  mat- 
ters ;  knowing  your  wisdom  can  make  good  use  thereof.  If  I 
live  not  to  perform  the  like  office  of  my  duty  hereafter,  likely  it 
is,  some  other  will  do  it  better. 

Before  the  departure  of  the  ship  (which  yet  was  wind  bound) 
there  came  unto  us  Sagamore  John,  and  one  of  his  subjects,  re- 
quiring satisfaction  for  the  burning  of  two  wigwams,  by  some  of 
the  English ;  which  wigwams,  were  not  inhabited,  but  stood  in 
a  place  convenient  for  their  shelter,  when  upon  occasion,  they 
should  travel  that  way. 


ADDRESS   BY  JOSEPH   B.   MOORS.  47 

By  examination  we  found  that  some  English  fowlers  having 
retired  into  that  which  belonged  to  the  subject ;  and  leaving  a 
fire  therein  carelessly,  which  they  had  kindled  to  warm  them, 
were  the  cause  of  burning  thereof.  For  that  which  was  the 
Sagamore's,  we  could  find  no  certain  proof  how  it  was  fired  : 
Yet  lest  he  should  think  us  not  sedulous  enough  to  -find  it  out, 
and  so  should  depart  discontentedly  from  us,  we  gave  both  him 
and  his  subject  satisfaction  for  them  both. 

Upon  the  25th  of  this  March,  one  of  the  Watertown  having 
lost  a  calf,  and  about  ten  of  the  clock  at  night  hearing  the  howl- 
ing of  some  wolves  not  far  off,  raised  many  of  his  neighbors  out 
of  their  beds,  that  by  dischargings  their  muskets  near  about  the 
place  where  he  heard  the  wolves,  he  might  so  put  the  wolves  to 
flight,  and  save  his  calf ;  the  wind  serving  fit  to  carry  the  report 
of  the  muskets  to  Roxbury,  three  miles  off,  at  such  a  time  ;  the 
inhabitants  there  took  an  alarm,  beat  up  their  drums,  armed 
themselves,  and  sent  in  post  to  us  to  Boston,  to  raise  us  also  ;  so 
in  the  morning,  the  calf  being  found  safe,  the  wolves  afrighted, 
and  our  danger  past,  we  went  merrily  to  breakfast. 

I  thought  to  have  ended  before,  but  the  stay  of  the  ship,  and 
my  desire  to  inform  your  honor  of  all  I  can,  hath  caused  this 
adition  ;  and  everyone  having  warning  to  prepare  for  the  ship's 
departure  to-morrow,  I  am  now  the  28th  of  March,  1631,  sealing 
my  letters. 

Your  Honours 

Old  Thankful  Servant, 

THOMAS  DUDLEY. 


We  of  this  generation  who  have  been  taught,  as  children, 
almost  as  early  as  we  have  been  told  of  Santa  Glaus,  that 
this  band  of  Puritans  came  to  this  rock-bound  coast,  as 
martyrs,  for  the  sake  of  religious  freedom,  are  impressed 
with  the  prominence  in  this  letter  from  Dudley  of  the  bus- 
iness side  of  the  undertaking.  As  children,  we  were  not 
taught  that  the  first  Puritans  were  a  stock  company,  organ- 
ized, with  rather  visionary  ideas  of  pecuniary  profit.  They 
were  certainly  martyrs,  and  it  would  be  unfair  to  deny 
them  the  greatest  courage  and  perseverance  in  their  bold 
undertaking :  but  they  had  been  forehanded  enough  to  arm 


48  ADDRESS   BY  JOSEPH   B.   MOORS. 

themselves  with  a  very  valuable  charter,  which  allowed 
them  to  govern  themselves  without  interference  from  the 
home  government,  so  long  as  they  did  nothing  contrary  to 
the  laws  of  England.  Indeed,  they  obtained  at  once  free- 
dom of  worship,  exemption  from  taxation  and  a  monopoly 
of  the  fur  trade. 

These  two  elements,  religious  fervor  and  self-govern- 
ment, are  curiously  combined  in  their  subsequent  union  of 
church  and  state.  The  worship  of  God  and  the  collection 
of  taxes  were  felt  to  be  equally  matters  for  them  to  con- 
trol, and  the  magistrates  had  supervision  over  both,  be- 
coming thereby  masters  over  men's  souls  as  well  as  over 
their  bodies,  and  making  possible  such  episodes  as  those  of 
Roger  Williams  and  of  Hester  Prynne. 

In  such  a  colony,  a  man  of  Dudley's  capacities  was  in 
his  element.  He  was  one  of  the  first  to  push  ahead  from 
Salem,  leaving  behind  the  colony  of  servants  whom  he 
mentions  with  regret,  for  the  loss  incurred  by  himself  and 
the  other  undertakers,  in  giving  them  their  freedom.  Indeed, 
he  and  the  more  robust  of  his  associates  were  drawn,  as  if 
by  destiny,  to  the  Hub  of  the  Universe.  They  landed  at 
Charlestown  where  it  is  reported  there  was  at  the  time  a 
single  frame  house,  that  appears  to  have  been  standing 
upon  the  site  of  the  present  Square  in  Charlestown. 

Here  the  first  religious  services  were  held  under  the 
branches  of  a  spreading  oak.  Here  the  church  covenant 
was  signed  by  John  Winthrop,  Thos.  Dudley,  John  Wil- 
son and  Isaac  Johnson.  You  may  read  this  simple  and 
solemn  compact  and  the  names  of  these  first  four  signers 
on  one  of  the  painted  windows  of  the  First  Church  in  this 
city. 

It  was  natural  that  the  first  interest  of  the  four  signers 
of  this  covenant  and  their  associates  should  have  been  the 
erection  of  a  place  of  worship  and  a  house  for  their  minis- 
ter. They  built  a  house  for  Wilson,  their  pastor,  which 
stood  upon  the  spot  now  occupied  by  the  Merchants  Bank 


ADDRESS   BY   JOSEPH   B.   MOORS.  49 

building,  near  the  corner  of  what  was  always  known  as 
Wilson's  Lane,  before  Devonshire  Street  was  extended  in 
1874.  The  cost  of  this  house,  together  with  the  church 
opposite,  was  about  six  hundred  dollars,  which  shows  how 
small  their  worldly  treasures  really  were.  They  also  voted 
Wilson  twenty  pounds,  or  a  hundred  dollars  a  year  salary. 
It  was  however,  given  upon  the  express  condition  that 
the  bargain  was  only  in  force  until  such  a  time  as  his  wife 
should  come  over.  Whether  they  intended  to  increase 
the  salary  after  the  arrival  of  his  wife,  we  are  left  to  con- 
jecture. Perhaps  the  opportunities  at  that  time  being 
somewhat  fewer  than  now  for  wives  to  spend  their  hus- 
band's money  may  have  had  an  influence  in  determining 
this  question.  It  would  be  very  instructive  to  some  of  us,  to 
learn  how  Mrs.  Wilson  managed  her  pin  money  out  of  this 
salary  of  one  hundred  dollars  a  year,  when  we  consider 
that  it  was  not  unlikely  to  have  been  paid  in  maize,  beans, 
cider  and  a  portion  perhaps  in  cord  wood. 

They  at  once  voted  one  hundred  and  twenty  pounds  to 
be  expended  for  the  purpose  of  building  this  house  for 
their  pastor  and  their  meeting  house.  The  cost  of  these 
two  buildings,  as  I  have  already  said,  about  six  hundred 
dollars,  was  thought  at  the  time  to  be  "a  liberal  expense." 
Their  little  meeting  house  was  erected  immediately  and 
stood  near  the  corner  of  what  is  now  State  and  Devonshire 
Streets,  about  where  Braziers  building  now  stands.  It  was 
a  lowjbuilding,  constructed  of  wood,  plastered  outside  with 
clay.  It  had  a  thatched  roof,  with  probably  oiled  paper, 
windows  to  admit  the  light,  but  was  without  any  chimney 
or  other  means  of  heating  whatever. 

It  is  fair  to  say  that  it  was  the  best  building  they  were 
able  to  erect.  Happily  for  them,  their  simple  faith  needed 
none  of  the  costly  appliances,  which  were  deemed  so  impor- 
tant with  Christian  worshippers  elsewhere. 

To  this  rude  and  bare  edifice  all  the  people  were  sum- 
moned for  two  long  services  on  Sunday,  one  at  nine  o'clock 


50  ADDRESS   BY  JOSEPH   B.    MOORS. 

in  the  morning,  and  one  at  two  o'clock  in  the  afternoon, 
called  together,  not  by  a  church  bell  so  common  in  New 
England  towns  at  a  later  date,  but  by  a  drum,  beaten  as  the 
drummer  walked  through  the  then  unnamed  roads  or  paths 
of  the  village.  Here  they  were  summoned  to  listen  to  the 
exhortation  of  Mr.  Wilson,  who,  had  he  been  so  minded, 
it  is  believed  might  have  held  a  high  position  among  the 
surpliced  clergy  of  England.  And  here  the  worshippers 
came  just  the  same  during  Mr.  Wilson's  long  absence  in 
England,  and  listened,  alternately,  to  the  preaching  of  Mr. 
Winthrop  and  of  Mr.  Dudley,  for  this  steward  of  the  Earl 
of  Lincoln  and  Captain  in  Her  Majesty  Queen  Elizabeth's 
service,  and  undertaker  in  the  new  stock  company,  which 
was  to  be  so  profitable  a  venture  in  New  England  had  "a 
very  good  pen,"  (in  the  opinion  of  Cotton  Mather),  and 
in  his  own  time  he  was  spoken  of  as  "a  man  of  approved 
wisdom  and  of  much  good  service  to  the  state." 

The  houses  of  the  first  settlers  were  chiefly  log  cabins, 
covered  with  thatch,  though  those  that  Johnson,  Winthrop 
and  Dudley  subsequently  built,  were  frame  houses  of  wood. 
The  very  earliest  houses  however,  that  Dudley  and  the 
others  built  at  Newtown,  afterwards  Cambridge,  appear 
also  to  have  been  of  logs. 

If  we  could  have  entered  the  house  of  Governor  Dudley, 
or  indeed  that  of  any  of  the  leading  families  in  the  Colony, 
we  should  find  only  one  room  with  even  an  opportunity 
for  a  fire  ;  which  fire  was  made  in  a  large  open  fire-place  of 
stone,  plastered  on  the  inside  with  clay.  We  should  also 
find  hanging  over  his  fire  of  logs,  the  rudest  cooking  uten- 
sils while  upon  each  side  of  the  fire  place,  the  members  of 
the  family  would  be  seen  seated  upon  high,  straight,  solid 
backed  wooden  settles,  made  to  serve  the  additional  pur- 
pose of  protecting  the  occupants  from  cold  in  other  parts 
of  the  room.  The  only  other  furniture  would  probably  be 
a  deal  table  and  a  few  chairs  with  rush  seats.  The  table 
furniture  consisted  of  plates  and  dishes  of  pewter,  with 


ADDEESS   BY  JOSEPH  B.   MOOES.  51 

knives  and  spoons  of  iron.  Meat  for  the  most  part 
they  ate  with  their  fingers ;  those  useful  articles,  table 
forks,  were  unknown  among  the  early  colonists.  Very 
little  silver  was  to  be  found  in  the  colony.  The  floors 
were  probably  bare,  except  covered  in  part  by  one  or  two 
mats  made  from  corn  husks  braided  and  then  sewed  to- 
gether. 

We  must  not  overlook  the  fact  that  Dudley  as  well  as 
many  of  those  early  settlers,  before  leaving  England  had 
been  accustomed  to  the  luxuries  of  life.  Everything  at 
that  time  was  very  abundant  in  England.  That  country 
was  prosperous ;  it  was  an  era  of  expansion  and  general 
prosperity  in  England. 

No  one  adapted  himself  better  than  Dudley,  to  these 
changed  conditions.  We  shall  see  presently  what  his  views 
were  on  toleration,  which  came  to  a  head  in  his  activity 
against  Anne  Hutchinson  and  Roger  Williams.  These 
were  the  virtues  of  the  time,  not  the  vices,  and  no  one  en- 
deared himself  more  than  Dudley  to  the  other  colonists  by 
his  public  spirit  in  defending  the  colony  from  the  dangers 
without,  and  the  apparently  as  great  danger  from  heresies 
within.  Remember,  that  this  was  a  community  which  en- 
gaged a  carpenter  to  build  some  stocks,  and  then  sentenced 
him  to  be  the  first  man  to  sit  in  them  because  his  bill  was 
too  high,  a  community  in  which  alchoholic  drinks  were  re- 
garded with  especial  favor  at  ordination  dinners,  and  yet 
where  if  a  man  was  found  drunk,  he  was  compelled  to  wear 
the  letter  "D"  round  his  neck  for  a  year.  Perhaps  the 
most  prominent  of  the  many  humorous  features  of  old  New 
England  Puritanism,  are  to  be  found  in  the  attitude  of  the 
people  toward  the  use  of  tobacco.  The  use  of  tobacco  was 
regarded  by  them  as  a  bad  habit,  and  any  one  found  smoking 
was  fined  two  and  six  pence,  but  if  several  men  happened  to 
be  caught  having  a  quiet  smoke  together,  the  fine  was 
increased.  Imagine  the  expression  upon  their  faces  had 
they  some  Sunday  afternoon  looked  into  one  of  our  modern 


52  ADDRESS   BY  JOSEPH   B.   MOORS. 

clubs.  Nevertheless  they  openly  encouraged  the  cultiva- 
tion and  sale  of  tobacco,  being  quite  ready  that  all  others 
outside  their  little  colony  should  have  an  opportunity  to 
practice  freely  the  wicked  habit  of  smoking,  thus  continu- 
ing as  ever  to  lay  up  treasures  in  heaven  and  on  earth. 

Of  all  men  in  this  community,  Dudley  was  the  most 
typical.  Business  man  that  he  was,  he  was  not  the  richest 
man  in  the  colony  ;  Isaac  Johnson  was  the  richest  man  and 
was  consequently  entitled  to  the  best  pew  in  the  church. 
He  was  not  the  religious  leader.  The  Rev.  John  Wilson 
and  later  Rev.  John  Cotton  held  that  position.  Dudley  did 
not,  when  coming  to  this  country,  hold  at  first  so  exalted  an 
office  as  Winthrop.  But  no  man  was  more  in  touch  with 
the  spirit  of  his  time.  Looking  back  at  him  from  our  own 
time,  we  see,  in  what  glimpses  we  have  of  his  life,  the  very 
essence  of  the  Puritan,  an  upright,  devout  man,  loyal,  per- 
severing, intelligent,  intolerant. 

A  certain  popular  impression  against  Dudley  has  sprung 
up  as  much  as  anything  from  a  dispute  which  arose  be- 
tween him  and  Winthrop,  with  regard  to  an  agreement 
made  between  them,  that  each  should  build  a  house  at 
Cambridge,  which  was  first  fixed  upon  as  the  Capital  of 
the  colony.  It  seems  that  Winthrop,  shortly  after  begin- 
ning to  build  his  house,  moved  to  Boston  and  that  a  sharp 
controversy  followed,  which  caused  a  breach  in  the  hitherto 
friendly  relations  between  these  two  men.  In  this  contro- 
versy Winthrop  maintained  that  he  had  fulfilled  the  word 
of  his  promise  to  Dudley,  but  as  evidence  of  the  justice  of 
Dudley's  side  of  the  dispute,  we  have  a  decision  of  the 
Elders  in  his  favor.  It  is  interesting  to  note  that  Winthrop 
soon  after  this,  wrote  to  Dudley  as  follows  : —  "  I  am  un- 
willing to  keep  such  a  cause  of  provocation  by  me."  To 
which  Dudley  replied,  "Your  overcoming  yourself  hath 
overcome  me."  Contrary  to  the  popular  notion,  we  find 
numerous  instances  of  the  friendship  and  love  which  pre- 
vailed between  these  men.  After  the  dispute  with  regard 


ADDRESS   BY   JOSEPH   B.   MOOES.  53 

to  the  Cambridge  houses  took  place,  Winthrop  sent  Dud- 
ley twenty  pounds,  which  the  latter  returned,  stating  that 
he  was  so  well  persuaded  of  the  "Governor's  love  for  him 
and  prized  it  so  highly,"  that  if  he  had  given  him  one 
hundred  pounds  instead  of  twenty,  he  would  not  have 
taken  it.  Their  children  soon  married,  and,  though  they 
differed  at  times  on  matters  of  public  and  church  policy, 
their  friendship  continued  ever  after.  By  this  marriage 
Gov.  Winthrop's  daughter  Mary,  became  Ex-Governor 
Dudley's  daughter-in-law.  In  1638  the  year  of  this  mar- 
riage, Winthrop  and  Dudley  took  a  trip  together  to  Concord 
to  examine  some  farms.  They  each  selected  about  one  thou- 
sand acres.  At  the  place  where  Dudley's  land  began  were 
two  great  stones,  still  to  be  seen  there,  which  they  named 
"The  Two  Brothers"  in  remembrance,  as  they  said,  that 
they  were  brothers  by  virtue  of  the  marriage  of  their  chil- 
dren. 

Winthrop,  before  leaving  England,  was  chosen  Gover- 
nor of  the  Colony.  He  had  then  an  income  of  seven 
hundred  pounds,  or  about  thirty-five  hundred  dollars  a 
year,  a  sufficient  sum  to  entitle  him,  at  that  time,  to  be 
counted  a  man  of  wealth.  When  Winthrop  left  Dudley 
and  moved  from  Cambridge  to  Boston,  he  built  a  house  at 
the  corner  of  what  is  now  Washington  and  Milk  streets, 
near  the  spot  where  the  Old  South  Church  now  stands. 
Having  lost  a  large  portion  of  his  property  through  the 
mismanagement  of  his  trusted  agent  in  England,  he  in 
consequence,  sold  most  of  his  land  in  the  town.  Winthrop 
appears  early  to  have  owned  quite  an  amount  of  land 
beside  that  at  Concord  and  an  island  in  the  harbor,  after- 
wards taken  by  the  government,  upon  which  Fort 
Winthrop  now  stands.  He  retained,  however,  a  small 
piece  of  land  upon  Washington  street,  nearly  opposite 
School  Street,  where  he  erected  a  wooden  house  which  is 
now  supposed  to  have  been  destroyed  by  the  British  troops 
in  1775.  In  this  house,  opposite  what  is  now  School  Street, 


54  ADDRESS   BY  JOSEPH   B.   MOOES. 

and  the  one  adjoining,  Winthrop  lived  17  years,  and  died 
18  years  after  the  settlement  of  Boston,  leaving  a  widow, 
his  fourth  wife,  to  whom  he  had  been  married  but  a  few 
months.  He  was  first  married  when  he  was  but  16  years 
old.  We  have  ample  evidence  that  he  had  an  undying  af- 
fection for  each  of  his  wives,  and  it  was  with  profound 
grief  that  he  in  turn  met  with  the  loss  of  each,  but  his 
sorrow,  queerly  enough,  in  every  instance,  seems  to  have 
been  very  speedily  turned  into  joy  in  the  company  of 
another  wife. 

At  his  own  house,  Winthrop,  and  presumedly,  Dudley 
at  his,  when  he  held  the  place  of  governor,  had  frequent 
consultations  with  regard  to  the  affairs  of  the  colony,  and 
here  they  acted  as  magistrates  at  trials  where  offences  had 
been  committed  that  involved  good  morals  among  their 
people.  Here  they  also  listened  to  the  bodily  ailments, 
and  administered  physic  to  their  neighbors,  though  it 
appears  somewhat  later  that  an  act  was  passed  forbidding 
any  one  to  practice  as  a  surgeon  or  give  medicine  unless 
he  was  skilled  in  the  art.  Dudley,  either  at  his  own 
house  or  at  those  of  his  neighbors,  performed  the  marriage 
ceremony.  The  ministers  of  that  time  following  the 
English  law,  were  not,  unless  they  belonged  to  the 
established  church,  authorized  to  perform  this  service. 
Severe  restrictions,  it  appears,  were  also  placed  upon  the 
other  learned  professions.  It  is  known  that  for  a  time 
there  was  but  one  lawyer  in  Boston,  and  that  he  was 
regarded  with  suspicion.  Anyone,  before  bringing  an 
action  at  law  and  employing  this  lawyer,  must  first  submit 
his  case  to  the  elders,  that  they  might  determine  before- 
hand, whether  he  had  cause  of  action  or  otherwise. 

In  1634,  John  Cotton,  who  had  recently  arrived  from 
England,  and  was  not  fully  in  sympathy  with  the  demo- 
cratic tendency  of  his  time,  preached  a  sermon  declaring 
his  objection  to  the  prevailing  belief  that  a  public  officer 
should  not  be  removed  from  office,  and  affirming  that  a 


ADDRESS   BY   JOSEPH   B.   MOOES.  55 

magistrate  once  elected,  had  the  same  right  to  remain  in 
office  that  he  had  to  the  undisputed  possession  of  his  land, 
or  other  private  property.  A  heated  controversy  was  the 
result  of  this  sermon  ;  but,  when  the  election  was  held, 
Dudley  was  chosen  Governor  in  place  of  Winthrop,  which 
office  he  held,  at  that  time,  but  one  year.  At  this  elec- 
tion we  find  the  first  recognition  and  adoption  of  the  plan 
of  popular  government,  the  choice  being  by  papers  or 
ballot,  the  first  on  record ;  an  important  event  in  the  his- 
tory of  the  colony. 

Abundant  cause  as  they  had  to  admire  Winthrop,  a 
feeling  adverse  to  his  long  continuance  in  office  had  crept 
in.  In  fact,  Cotton  is  said  to  have  become  convinced  of 
the  decline  of  the  Governor's  popularity,  while  Dudley 
had  the  confidence  of  the  people  to  a  great  degree. 

Dudley  was  re-elected  Governor  in  1645,  with  Winthrop 
as  Deputy-Governor,  and  again  their  places  changed  in 
1646,  1647,  1648,  during  which  years  Winthrop  became 
Governor  and  Dudley  again  Deputy-Governor. 

Having  served  as  Governor  four  years,  Dudley,  when 
seventy  years  of  age,  was  chosen  Sergeant  Major-General, 
the  highest  military  office  in  the  gift  of  the  colony. 

The  Massachusetts  Colony,  as  it  came',  to  be  called,  grew 
rapidly  at  first ;  many  families  of  wealth  and  influence 
cast  their  fortunes  with  the  settlers,  so  that  the  Massachu- 
setts Colony  finally  absorbed  the  colony  at  Plymouth,  the 
former  having  soon  far  outstripped  the  latter  in  material 
prosperity.  This  growth,  however,  was  checked  the  last 
year  of  Dudley's  administration.  The  times  were  then 
what  is  popularly  known  as  hard  times.  Money  became 
so  very  scarce  that  debts  had  to  be  paid,  if  at  all,  in  corn, 
cattle,  etc.  Indian  corn  at  this  time  was  declared  a  legal 
tender,  at  the  price  of  four  shillings  a  bushel,  and  the 
price  then  fixed  was  a  standard  for  the  payment  of  debts 
for  a  long  time  afterwards. 

There  is  much  that  is  suggestive  in  the  fact  that  when 


56  ADDRESS   BY  JOSEPH   B.   MOORS. 

Dudley  moved  from  Cambridge  to  Ipswich  in  1634,  the 
colonists  soon  found  the  need  of  his  wisdom  in  that  storm 
of  trouble  which  began  to  arise  after  his  removal  from 
Cambridge.  He  therefore  was  importuned  by  his  friends 
to  return,  which  he  did,  and  finally  settled  in  Roxbury. 
What  better  evidence  than  this,  of  the  place  in  the  colony 
held  by  this  steward  of  the  Earl  of  Lincoln.  Dudley's 
house  in  Roxbury  stood  opposite  the  end  of  Shawmut 
Avenue,  where  a  wooden  church  now  stands.  His  resi- 
dence here  was  long  remembered  for  the  number  of  distin- 
guished guests  he  entertained.  Miantonomoh,  the  Narra- 
gansett  chief,  was  entertained  at  this  house  in  1640.  This 
house,  like  Winthrop's,  singularly  enough,  was  torn  down 
during  the  war  of  the  Revolution.  He  had  deemed  it 
best  to  finish  it  with  a  little  more  regard  to  comfort  than 
was  the  custom  among  his  neighbors,  and  he  was,  in  con- 
sequence subjected  to  some  sort  of  public  censure,  but  he 
stated  in  his  own  justification,  that  the  only  innovation 
that  he  had  made  upon  the  prevailing  custom  was  that  his 
house  was  clapboarded  inside  to  keep  out  the  cold,  while 
the  others  were -not.  Here  his  wife,  Dorothy  Dudley,  died 
in  1643,  at  the  age  of  61  years.  The  Governor, 
however,  seems  soon  to  have  dried  his  tears,  for  we  find 
him  four  months  later,  when  over  70  years  of  age,  married 
to  the  widow  of  one  of  his  neighbors  in  Roxbury  by  the 
name  of  Hockson  ;  after  this  he  had  three  children.  When 
his  death  occurred,  nearly  seven  years  later,  his  widow 
appears  to  have  hazarded  matrimony  for  the  fourth  time, 
taking  the  youngest  set  of  the  Dudley  children  with  her- 
The  Governor  must  have  been  the  owner  of  quite  a  farm, 
for  it  is  known  that  he  paid  his  sons'  dues,  while  they  were 
at  Harvard  College,  in  farm  products.  With  characteristic 
Puritan  thrift  he  is  said  to  have  loaned  seven  and  a  half 
bushels  of  grain  to  one  of  his  fellow  colonists  in  the 
Spring,  with  the  understanding  that  he  should  be  repaid 
ten  bushels  in  the  Autumn.  For  doing  this  he  was 


ADDRESS   BY   JOSEPH   B.   MOORS.  57 

taunted  with  usury,  though  it  would  seem  that  the  charge 
he  made  was  not  unfair,  as  he  took  the  risk  of  the 
borrower's  crop.  We  have  other  ample  evidence  that  he 
was  thrifty  in  the  conduct  of  his  private  affairs. 

He  was  said  to  have  had  the  largest  library  in  the 
colony,  chiefly  theological  works  and  histories.  It  con- 
tained, however,  only  about  fifty  volumes,  as  it  was  a  time 
when  the  number  of  books  was  very  limited. 

If  we  are  still  in  danger  in  being  persuaded  that  this 
man  was  not  typical  of  what  was  best  among  the  Puritans, 
or  had  vices  which  were  not  the  virtues  of  his  own  time, 
we  should  bear  in  mind  that  one  among  his  eight  children, 
his  daughter  Anne,  who  married  Simon  Bradstreet,  was  the 
first  American  poetess,  though  her  poems  were  first  printed 
and  published  in  England.  She  was  a  poetess  of  much 
beauty  and  gentleness  of  thought  and  expression.  She  is  not 
the  kind  of  child  we  should  expect  from  a  "  bleak  and  stern  " 
father,  nor  are  the  following  lines  about  him,  written  after 
his  death,  indicative  of  any  such  conception  of  him  upon 
her  part.  Indeed,  she  entertained  for  him  the  greatest 
respect  and  affection.  In  an  old  volume  of  her  poems, 
which  I  have,  she  says  of  her  father : 


TO  THE  MEMORY  OF  MY  DEAR  AND  EVER  HONORED  FATHER, 
THOMAS  DUDLEY,  ESQ. 

By  duty  bound,  and  not  by  custom  led, 

To  celebrate  the  praises  of  the  dead, 

My  mournful  mind,  prepared  in  trembling  verse, 

Presents  my  lamentations  at  his  herse ; 

Who  was  my  father,  guide,  instructor  too, 

To  whom  I  ought  whatever  I  could  do  ; 

Nor  it's  relation,  near,  my  hand  shall  tie, 

For  who  more  cause  to  boast  his  worth  than  I 

Who  heard  or  saw,  observed  or  knew  him  better, 

Or  who  alive  than  I  a  greater  debtor  ? 


58  ADDRESS   BY  JOSEPH   B.   MOORS. 

Well  known  and  loved  where'er  he  lived  by  most, 

Both  in  his  native  and  in  foreign  coast ; 

These  to  the  world  his  merits  could  make  known, 

So  needs  no  testimonial  from  his  own. 

But  now  or  never  I  must  pay  my  sum  ; 

While  others  tell  his  worth  I'll  not  be  dumb  ; 

One  of  thy  founders,  him  New  England  know ; 

Who  staid  thy  feeble  sides  when  thou  wast  low. 

Who  spent  his  state,  his  strength,  and  years  with  care 

That  after-comers  in  them  might  have  share. 

True  patriot  of  this  little  common  weal, 

Who  is't  can  tax  thee  aught  but  for  thy  seal  ? 


Thy  love  to  true  religion  e'er  shall  shine, 
My  father's  God  be  God  of  me  and  mine. 


Forgotten  never  be  his  memory. 
His  blessing  rest  on  his  posterity. 


A  real  benediction  for  us,  and  that  she  herself  was  a 
loving,  tender  woman,  is  plain  from  the  following  lines, 
published  in  a  later  edition  of  her  poems,  about  a  son  who 
was  about  to  leave  to  go  to  England  and  back.  She 
dreaded  the  long,  dangerous  journey  that  she  felt  that  he 
was  about  to  undertake  ;  her  own  voyage,  when  coming 
out,  was  seventy-six  days  from  the  time  they  left  Cowes 
until  she  arrived  in  Salem.  £he  says  : 

"  Thou  Mighty  God  of  sea  and  land 

I  here  resign  unto  thy  hand 

The  son  of  prayers,  of  vows,  of  tears, 

The  child  I  stayed  for  many  years, 

Thou  heard'st  me  then  and  gav'st  him  me, 

Hear  me  again,  I  give  him  thee." 

Among  the  descendants  of  Anne  Dudley,  afterwards 
Anne  Bradstreet,  there  have  been  and  are  still  to  be  found 
the  names  of  some  of  our  most  distinguished  citizens^ 


ADDRESS    BY  JOSEPH   B.    MOOES.  59 

Who  need  doubt  that  the  graceful  folds  of  her  mantle 
descended  and  again  rested  upon  the  shoulders  of  Wendell 
Phillips  and  Doctor  Holmes  ? 

Gov.  Dudley  died  July  the  31st,  1654,  at  the  ripe  age 
of  seventy-seven,  and  was  buried  in  the  old  burying- 
ground,  corner  of  Washington  and  Eustis  Streets.  An 
oval  slab  of  white  marble  there  bears  the  name  of 
"Dudley."  The  plate  of  metal  was  believed  to  have  been 
taken  and  melted  into  bullets  by  the  soldiers,  about  the 
time  of  the  Revolution. 

Gov.  Dudley,  if  we  may  take  the  statements  of  all  his 
contemporaries,  possessed  great  discretion,  as  well  as  firm- 
ness and  courage.  He  was  not  afraid  to  do  right,  nor 
could  he  be  induced  to  do  what  he  believed  to  be  wrong. 

It  is  hard  for  us  to  imagine  a  stronger  character  than 
that  of  the  author  of  the  letter  to  the  Countess  of  Lin- 
coln ;  of  the  successful  manager  of  the  Earl  of  Lincoln's 
estate  ;  of  this  undertaker  of  the  New  England  Colony  ;  of 
this  watchful  counselor  throughout  the  first  days  of  the 
founding  of  our  Commonwealth ;  and  yet  I  cannot  bear  to 
close  this  paper  without  mentioning  to  you  a  single  item 
which  suggests  the  possibility  of  the  softer  kind  of  human 
weakness  in  this  stern  breast.  After  his  death,  there  was 
found  in  the  pocket  of  this  father  of  Anne  Bradstreet,  and 
ancestor  of  our  own  Dr.  Holmes,  a  poem.  Perhaps  he  had 
never  admitted  his  weakness  to  any  one  of  his  steeple- 
hatted  Puritan  brethren,  but  had  cherished  it  in  his 
pocket,  a  weakness  known  only  to  himself.  The  poem- 
runs  as  follows : 

"  Dim  eyes,  deaf  ears,  cold  stomach  show 

My  dissolution  is  in  view  ; 

Eleven  times  seven  near  lived  have  I, 

And  now  God  calls,  I  willing  dye, 

My  shuttle's  shot,  my  race  is  run, 

My  sun  is  set,  my  deed  is  done. 

My  span  is  measured,  my  tale  is  told  ; 

My  flower's  faded  and  grown  old. 


60  ADDRESS   BY  JOSEPH   B.    MOORS. 

•    My  life  is  vanished,  shadows  fled, 
My  soul's  with  Christ,  my  body  dead  ; 
Farewell  dear  wife,  children  and  friends, 
Hate  heresy,  make  blessed  ends, 
Bear  poverty,  live  with  good  men, 
So  shall  we  meet  with  joy  again, 
Let  men  of  God  in  courts  and  churches  watch 
O'er  such  as  do  a  toleration  hatch, 
Lest  the  ill  egg  bring  forth  a  cockatrice,* 
To  pay  you  all  with  heresy  and  vice, 
If  men  be  left  and  otherwise  combine 
Mine  epitaph's,  I  did  no  hurt  to  thine." 

In  this  poem  the  old  Governor  speaks  for  himself.  In 
one  sense  it  is  very  interesting  to  us,  his  descendants,  to 
consider  how  near  we  can  come  to  shaking  hands  with 
him.  Taking  the  full  life  of  man  as  a  standard,  it  is 
really  but  a  short  time  since  Gov.  Dudley  was  living  here 
in  Boston. 

There  are  probably  persons  now  living,  at  any  rate,  I 
personally  know  people  who  have  died  within  a  very  few 
years,  in  fact,  within  six  or  seven  years,  who  distinctly 
remembered  persons  who,  if  they  did  not  know  Dudley 
personally,  they  did  know  people  who  were  living  here  in 
Boston  at  the  time  he  was  alive.  But  in  another  and 
deeper  sense,  how  far  he  is  from  us.  In  the  contemplation 
of  his  quatrain  on  toleration,  and  comparing  it  with  our 
own  time,  we  behold  the  whole  history  of  New  England. 
In  these  modern  days  it  is  almost  an  axiom  in  ethics  that 
every  man's  honest  convictions  shall  be  respected,  however 
much  they  may  differ  from  our  own.  In  his  own  time, 
this  strong  man  was  very  close  to  the  popular  heart  when 
he  wrote 

"  Let  men  of  God  in  courts  and  churches  watch, 
O'er  such  as  do  a  toleration  hatch, 
Lest  the  ill  egg  bring  forth  a  cockatrice 
To  pay  you  all  with  heresy  and  vice." 

*A  cockatrice  is  a  serpent  fabled  to  rise  from  an  egg,  and  so  venomous  as  to  be 
able  to  kill  with  its  look. 


ADDKESS    BY   JOSEPH   B.    MOORS.  61 

One  of  the  results  of  this  gathering,  I  believe,  will  be  a- 
statue  of  Gov.  Thomas  Dudley,  and  without  anticipating 
the  action  of  the  association,  I  hope  that  such  a  statue  will 
be  erected  in  one  of  the  new,  and  soon  to  be,  beautiful 
public  parks  of  this  city. 

I  would  like,  however,  to  improve  this  opportunity  to 
call  the  attention  of  those  in  charge  of  a  memorial  to  Gov. 
Dudley,  to  something  that  to  my  mind  is  full  of  sugges- 
tion and  importance.  Many  carefully  prepared  volumes, 
and  papers  without  number,  have  been  furnished  us, 
mainly  from  the  skilful  pens  of  his  descendants,  com- 
mending Gov.  Winthrop  to  us,  giving  him  the  credit  of 
being  the  founder  of  our  Commonwealth,  while  of  Gov. 
Thomas  Dudley,  who  occupied  perhaps  as  important  a 
place  in  the  early  history  of  this  region  as  any  one,  not 
excepting  Winthrop  himself,  no  adequate  or  even  pass- 
able memoir  has  ever  been  written  by  any  one.  If  we 
should  erect  a  monument  to  his  memory,  let  us  see  to  it 
that  it  is  accompanied  by  one  or  more  volumes  from  a 
competent  hand,  giving  us  an  impartial  account  of  Dudley's 
character,  as  well  as  his  public  and  private  life.  Let  us 
erect  a  monument  of  stone  or  of  bronze,  but  still  spare  no 
effort  to  the  end  that  a  no  less  important  and  enduring 
monument  may  be  found  in  all  our  libraries  in  the  shape 
of  a  full,  adequate  and  satisfactory  account  of  the  life  of 
Governor  Thomas  Dudley. 


letters  of  IRegret, 


The  President: 

It  is  fitting  that  I  should  now  read  you  a  letter  from  an- 
other descendant  of  Anne  Bradstreet.  I  will  read  a  letter 
from  Dr.  Holmes. 

296  BEACON  STREET,  > 
Oct.  iQth,  1892.  J 
My  Dear  Sir : 

I  regret  that  I  shall  not  be  able  to  be  present  at  the  meeting 
of  the  descendants  of  Governor  Dudley.  After  so  many  gen- 
erations it  may  not  be  possible  to  trace  the  lineaments  of  the 
old  head  of  the  family,  but  it  will  be  interesting  to 
look  for  them,  and  it  is  far  from  possible  that  resemblances 
among  the  descendants  may  here  and  there  show  themselves. 
If  there  are  any  such  they  would  be  brought  out  in  photographs. 
It  would  be  well  to  have  the  whole  group  photographed  together 
if  possible. 

Wishing  all  success  to  the  gathering  of  the  sturdy  old  Gov- 
ernor's progeny, 

Yours  very  truly, 

OLIVER  WENDELL  HOLMES. 

Another  letter  I  am  very  sure  you  will  wish  to  hear.  It 
is  from  Prof.  Charles  Eliot  Norton. 

ASHFIELD,  MASS, 
6  Sept.,  1892. 

My  Dear  Sir : 

I  regret  that"  absence  from  home  has  delayed  my  reply  to 
your  favor  of  the  3oth  August. 

I  feel  greatly  honored  by  the  desire  of  the  Committee  in 
charge  of  the  Dudley  celebration  that  I  should  take  part  in  the 
proceedings,  and  I  am  very  sorry  that  it  is  quite  out  of  my 


LETTERS   OF  REGRET.  63 

power  to   do  so,   on  account  of  the  pressure  of  engagements 
which  cannot  be  given  up  or  postponed. 
With  all  good  wishes  for  the  success  of  the  Reunion,  I  am 

Very  truly  yours, 

S/  H.  DUDLEY,  ESQ.,  C.  E.  NORTON. 

Chairman. 

Among  the  compeers  and  co-workers  of  Dudley  and 
Winthrop  and  Endecott,  and  the  rest  who  accomplished 
so  much  in  founding  the  colony,  was  Sir  Richard  Salton- 
stall.  And  what  so  meet  and  fitting  as  that  some  repre- 
sentative of  Sir  Richard  should  be  invited  to  participate 
in  these  festivities  ?  His  distinguished  descendant,  the 
Hon.  Leverett  Saltonstall,  writes  as  follows : 

953  EXCHANGE  BUILDING,  ? 
BOSTON,  Oct.    20,  1892.  f 

S.  H.  DUDLEY,  95  MILK  STREET,  BOSTON. 
My  Dear  Sir  : 

I  regret  extremely  that  my  engagements  will  not  permit  of 
my  accepting  your  kind  invitation  to  the  Dudley  Reunion  on 
Tuesday  next. 

I  have  the  strongest  feeling  for  the  memory  of  the  forefathers, 
especially  that  noble  company  who  were  the  founders  of  the 
Massachusetts  Colony. 

Your  ancestor,  Governor  Dudley,  was  of  course  intimately 
connected  in  that  great  enterprise  with  Sir  Richard  Saltonstall. 
He  was  one  of  the  fathers  of  the  Colony  and  as  such  surely 
deserves  the  respect  and  admiration  of  his  descendants. 

As  I  grow  older  I  feel  a  great  interest  in  everything  con- 
nected with  them.  I  love  to  think  of  them,  to  read  of  them, 
and  to  study  their  character.  Whatever  may  have  been  their 
failings,  and  they  were  few,  they  were  wonderful  men,  and  their 
character  has  been  very  generally  impressed  upon  their  descen- 
dants. 

I  trust  your  Reunion  of  the  Dudley  descendants  will  result  in 
their  permanent  organization,  for  such  must  be  conducive  to 
the  future  welfare  of  our  country. 

Very  truly  yours, 

LEVERETT  SALTONSTALL. 


64  EXPLANATORY. 

It  is  said  of  Governor  Dudley  that  in  his  youth  he 
was  clerk  unto  a  certain  judge,  but  "  before  he  could  ap- 
pear to  do  much  at  the  pen,  for  which  he  was  very  well 
accomplished,  he  was  called  upon  to  do  something  at  the 
sword  ;  for  being  a  young  gentleman  well  known  for  his 
ingenuity,  courage  and  conduct,  when  there  were  soldiers- 
to  be  raised  by  order  from  Queen  Elizabeth  for  the  French 
service,  in  the  time  of  King  Henry  the  Fourth,  the  young 
sparks  about  Northampton  were  none  of  them  willing  to1 
enter  into  the  service  until  a  commission  was  given  unto- 
our  young  Dudley  to  be  their  captain  ;  and  then  presently 
there  were  forescore  that  listed  under  him."  Let  me  sajr 
to  you  that  martial  ardor  has  not  died  out  among  his  de- 
scendants. You  well  remember  the  stirring  scenes  of  the 
war,  or  the  older  ones  among  you  do,  how  call  after  call 
was  made  by  President  Lincoln  for  the  young  men  of  the 
country,  how  they  flocked  to  its  defence,  and  what  valiant 
deeds  they  did.  I  need  not  describe  it  further,  for  we 
have  a  gentleman  here  to-night  who  obeyed  that  call  to 
duty,  went  to  the  front  and  performed  his  duty,  true  to  the 
lineage  from  which  he  sprung.  Need  I  mention  his  name  ? 
I  will  call  upon  Col.  L.  Edwin  Dudley  to  address  you. 

There  was  much  applause  as  Col.  Dudley  arose  to  speakr 
but  at  this  point  occurred  a  most  unlooked  for  episode. 
Mr.  Dean  Dudley,  who  was  assigned  to  speak  later,  arose 
and  said  that  it  was  unfair  not  to  call  him  at  this  time, 
that  the  people  expected  him  to  speak  now,  claiming  it  so 
intended,  and  he  proceeded  to  read  an  address.  President 
Dudley  attempted  to  expostulate  with  him,  but  Mr.  Dean 
Dudley  declined  to  discontinue  his  address,  and  the  presi- 
dent permitted  him  to  proceed  without  further  objection. 

[Mr.  Dean  Dudley  proceeded  to  read  an  address  now 
appearing  in  a  pamphlet  which  he  claims  to  have  copy- 
righted. As  he  has  declined  to  confer  with  the  Committee 
having  this  Report  in  .charge,  and  has  not  authorized  a. 
reproduction  of  his  Address,  it  has  seemed  inadvisable  to 
the  committee  to  insert  it  here.] 


Gomb  of  0ov>.  £bomas 

The  above  out  represents  the  tomb  of  our  distinguished  ancestor,  Gov.  Thomas  Dudley,  as 
it  appears  at  the  present  time  in  the  ancient  burial  ground,  on  Eustis  St.,  Roxbury,  and  not  far 
distant  from  the  site  of  the  house  where  the  Governor  lived.  He  died  at  Roxbnry,  July  31,  1054, 
and  was  buried  here  with  all  the  honors  to  which  his  distinguished  position  in  life  entitled  him. 

[The  Association  is  indebted  to  Col.  L.  Edwin  Dudley  for  this  excellent  cut]. 


EXPLANATORY.  65 

The  President :  I  do  not  intend  to  apologize  for  Mr. 
Dean  Dudley.  Had  it  not  been  for  him  I  think  I  can  say 
with  confidence  that  we  should  not  be  here  to-night.  He 
it  is  who  has  done  the  work  which  nobody  else  was  willing 
to  do.  The  wonder  is  that  he  has  accomplished  so  much. 
I  am  very  sure  that  you  will  all  join  with  me  in  tendering 
to  him  our  heartiest  thanks  for  the  great  work  he  has  ac- 
complished in  making  our  family  acquainted  with  itself. 
Nearly  a  half  century  ago,  as  a  young  man  full  of  enthu- 
siam  and  determination,  he  set  out  to  complete  the  task 
he  had  set  for  himself.  He  worked,  he  studied,  he  investi- 
gated. He  travelled  to  the  home  of  our  ancestors  and 
visited  their  family  seat  and  castle.  Wherever  a  name 
or  a  date  could  be  found,  there  he  was  sure  to  go,  and  the 
result  was  a  book  which  most  of  you  may  have  heard  of 
and  some  may  own,  as  it  has  been  handed  down  to  us  by 
our  fathers.  But  let  me  say  that  now,  in  his  old  age,  he  is 
collecting  a  mass  of  rich  material,  illustrative  of  the  his- 
tory of  our  family  which  might  otherwise  have  disap- 
peared ;  and  to  him  we  are  indebted  more  than  to  any 
other  man  for  the  means  of  knowing  ourselves.  He  is  the 
guest  of  the  evening,  therefore,  and  I  know  how  you  all 
have  desired  to  see  and  hear  him.  He  is  much  interested 
as  you  have  observed,  in  everything  that  shall  conduce 
to  the  proper  preservation  of  the  tomb  of  Governor  Dud- 
ley where  rest  his  remains  and  that  of  his  family ;  also 
in  the  erection  of  some  suitable  monument  or  memorial  to 
the  memory  of  Governor  Dudley  and  I  am  very  sure  that 
it  has  been  a  pleasure  to  us  all  to  have  him  here  with  us 
to-night. 

But  I  shall  not  permit  you  to  forget  that  I  have  called 
upon  another  gentleman  to  address  you  and  that  we  have 
not  yet  heard  from  him.  May  I  not,  then,  again  present 
to  you  Colonel  L.  Edwin  Dudley,  of  Boston. 


66 

Col.  Emblems  Hfcfcress. 


Mr.   Chairman: — 

You  all  know  that  when  Governor  Thomas  Dudley  came 
to  Massachusetts  he  brought  with  him  his  son  Samuel,  then 
twenty  years  of  age.  I  am  his  descendant  in  the  seventh 
generation.  You  have  always  heard  more  of  his  brother 
Joseph,  younger  than  himself  by  thirty-six  years  ;  and  all 
the  credit  that  has  been  given  to  Governor  Joseph  Dudley 
is  more  than  deserved.  He  was  one  of  the  foremost  men 
of  his  time,  his  service  to  the  cause  of  free  government 
cannot  easily  be  over-rated.  I  am  not  surprised  that  his 
descendants  feel*  unusual  pride  in  their  ancestry;  on  every 
hand  we  still  see  the  marks  of  his  handiwork.  None  shall 
go  before  me  in  paying  all  honor  to  Joseph  Dudley  and  to 
his  sister  Anne  Bradstreet,  the  first  American  poetess  ;  to 
both  I  give  all  honor  and  praise.  The  descendants  of 
Anne  Dudley  Bradstreet  and  those  of  Governor  Joseph 
Dudley,  have  spoken  and  written  words  of  praise  more 
eloquent  than  any  that  will  come  to  me,  and  to  all  that 
has  and  can  be  said  in  praise  of  their  lives  and  good 
works  I  say  amen,  and  amen. 

But  I  am  proud  to  belong  to  the  pioneer  branch  of  the 
family  ;  pioneer  in  a  more  particular  sense.  I  am  as  proud 
of  my  descent  from  the  Rev.  Samuel  Dudley  of  Exeter, 
New  Hampshire,  as  any  of  you  can  be  of  yours,  and  while 
I  take  nothing  from  you,  I  must  speak  of  the  godly  man 
who  lived  and  worked  quietly,  earnestly  and  energetically 
for  the  salvation  of  his  fellowmen  and  the  regeneration  of 
the  world. 

Born  and  bred  in  the  lap  of  luxury  in  the  old  world, 
educated  as  but  few  were  in  his  time,  the  eldest  son  of 
Governor  Thomas  Dudley,  desiring  with  all  the  ardor  of 
his  young  heart,  religious  freedom,  gladly  joined  his  father 
and  came  here  to  endure  the  hardships  and  privations  of 


ADDRESS   BY   COL.   DUDLEY.  67 

the  new  world.  We  may  indeed,  in  view  of  the  fact  that 
he  and  Mary  Winthrop,  who  sometime  later  became  his 
wife,  surmise,  there  is  no  record  to  confirm  the  thought, 
that  he  and  his  sweetheart  agreed  together  to  meet  the 
dangers,  the  difficulties  and  the  privations  of  the  new 
world  hand  in  hand.  They  came  with  their  fathers  and 
mothers  in  the  good  ship  Arbella  and  took  their  part  in 
the  struggles,  hardships  and  privations  which  the  new 
colony  endured,  and  two  years  later  joined  their  fortunes 
for  better  and  for  worse  as  man  and  wife. 

This  reverend  pioneer,  who  aided  in  the  settlement  of 
Cambridge,  Boston,  Ipswich,  and  Salisbury,  in  Massachu- 
setts, and  Exeter  in  New  Hampshire,  certainly  left  an  im- 
press upon  this  colony  hardly  second  to  that  left  by  any 
man  who  ever  inhabitated  this  territory.  Always  con- 
tented to  be  an  humble  teacher  and  fellow  worker  with 
his  neighbors  and  friends,  he  none  the  less,  led  and  in- 
fluenced them  for  the  right  in  the  great  work  of  building 
the  Commonwealth.  His  thoughts  and  influence  helped 
on  the  good  cause  at  all  times. 

The  descendants  of  Rev.  Samuel  Dudley  of  Exeter  are 
now  scattered  far  and  wide  throughout  the  United  States. 
In  every  war  from  the  first  until  now,  his  descendants 
have  been  on  the  side  of  the  government,  for  freedom  and 
for  union  and  against  rebellion,  oppression,  slavery  and 
wrong.  Several  descendants  of  Rev.  Samuel  Dudley  gave 
their  li ves  for  the  country  in  the  early  struggles  with  the 
French  and  the  Indians.  My  own  great  grandfather  laid 
down  his  life  for  his  country  at  Monmouth  in  the  war  of 
the  Revolution,  and  many  others  did  their  part  nobly  and 
well,  and  several  gave  their  lives  that  their  country  might 
live. 

In  the  war  of  1812,  although  not  a  popular  war  in  New 
England,  some  of  Samuel  Dudley's  descendants  took  part 
in  behalf  of  the  government.  The  war  with  Mexico  was. 


68  ADDRESS   BY   COL.    DUDLEY. 

still  less  popular  among  the  freedom  loving  people  of 
New  England,  but  when  the  flag  of  the  Union  led  the 
way,  many  of  the  descendants  of  the  puritan  preacher  en- 
tered the  ranks. 

In  the  war  of  the  Rebellion,  the  fight  of  freedom  against 
slavery,  numerous  New  England  regiments  bore  the  names 
of  descendants  of  Rev.  Samuel  Dudley.  I  have  yet  to 
find  a  single  descendant  of  Rev.  Samuel  Dudley  who  took 
arms  against  his  country.  It  was  the  proud  boast  of  my 
brothers  and  myself  in  the  last  war,  that  we  knew  of  no 
man  among  our  own  immediate  kindred,  able  to  bear 
arms,  of  the  age  for  military  duty,  who  was  not  in  the 
ranks  doing  his  duty  for  the  flag,  for  freedom  and  for  his 
•country ;  and  there  were  many  who  carried  their  muskets 
•whom  no  draft  could  have  reached.  I  was  myself  the 
eldest  of  four  brothers  who  entered  the  Union  army. 
One  of  my  younger  brothers,  a  brave  boy  of  fifteen  carried 
a  musket  and  did  a  soldier's  duty  in  the  siege  of  Nash- 
ville. He  suffered  the  cold,  hunger  and  all  the  privations 
of  that  siege  and  took  his  part  in  the  work  which  brought 
about  the  glorious  victory  which  sent  Hood  on  his  trip 
southward,  and  paved  the  >way  for  the  subsequent  victo- 
ries in  the  south-west. 

The  descendants  of  Rev.  Samuel  Dudley  have  always 
been  pioneers.  The  region  about  Exeter  was  no  sooner 
subdued  than  they  pushed  out  to  Brentwood,  and  on  to 
York,  Maine,  and  to  all  the  region  round  about.  They 
extended  their  lines  in  all  directions  and  subdued  the  land- 
They  fought  all  the  enemies  that  contend  against  settlers 
in  a  new  country  ;  they  endured  all  the  hardships  that 
those  who  would  make  a  home  in  a  New  England  wilder- 
ness must  endure.  I  have  no  time  to  give  you  details,  al- 
though a  most  interesting  story  might  be  written  of  their 
migrations  and  work  ;  but  I  well  remember  the  story  of 
my  own  father.  He  was  the  eleventh  child  of  Stephen 


ADDRESS   BY  COL.   DUDLEY.  69 

Dudley  and  Deborah  Elkins  ;  his  oldest  brother  was  more 
than  twenty  years  his  senior.  That  eldest  brother,  my 
uncle  Timothy,  in  the  year  1816,  the  very  year  in  which 
my  father  was  born,  went  to  Northern  Vermont,  then  a 
wilderness,  and  began  to  make  a  home  in  the  woods.  He 
labored  well,  and  in  1820  he  had  cleared  a  farm,  builded  a 
saw  and  grist  mill  and  was  then  ready  to  provide  for  his 
family.  He  returned  to  New  Hampshire  and  my  grand- 
father packed  up  his  effects,  took  his  family  and  started 
for  the  new  country.  My  grandfather's  eldest  child,  my 
aunt  Patience,  had  married  a  young  man  by  the  name  of 
Weeks,  and  they  were  settled  in  their  humble  home,  and 
they  decided  to  remain  behind.  My  father,  then  but  five 
years  of  age,  used  to  tell  me  of  the  hardships  of  the  jour- 
ney ;  how  the  snow  covered  them  at  night  and  how  they 
suffered  with  cold,  sometimes  with  hunger,  and  how  fa- 
tigued all  became  before  they  reached  their  journey's  end 
at  Barton,  Vermont. 

I  can  only  give  you  a  brief  outline  of  the  life  of  Rev. 
Samuel  Dudley;  but  his  descendants  should  gather  up, 
and  fondly  treasure,  every  record  of  the  life  of  their  great 
and  good  ancestor  for  the  benefit  and  guidance  of  all 
future  generations  of  his  descendants. 

The  few  facts  I  have  been  able  to  learn  in  the  short 
time  I  have  been  able  to  take  from  the  duties  of  a  position 
which  claims  my  time  during  most  of  my  waking  hours, 
are  briefly  as  follows. 

Rev.  Samuel  Dudley  was  born  in  Northamptonshire, 
England,  in  1610.  The  exact  day  I  have  not  been  able 
to  learn.  During  the  years  of  his  childhood,  his  father 
was  clerk  to  his  kinsman,  the  renowned  Judge  Nicolls, 
and  all  educational  advantages  enjoyed  by  the  youth  of 
his  time  were  his.  During  the  later  time,  for  several 
years  before  coming  to  America,  Thomas  Dudley  was  the 
steward  of  the  Earl  of  Lincoln,  and  his  son  lived  in  the 


70  ADDRESS   BY   COL.   DUDLEY 

greatest  intimacy  with  the  membrs  of  that  great  houses 
and  the  numerous  guests,  embracing  some  of  the  brightest 
and  best  of  English  nobility  and  men  of  letters  of  that 
time.  He  had  the  advantage  of  the  teaching  of  John  Dod, 
the  Decaloguist,  John  Cotton,  and  of  others  among  the 
eminent  divines  and  theologians  of  his  time.  He  was 
born  to  the  protestant  faith  and  to  a  belief  in  the  rights  of 
the  people.  It  was  not  allotted  to  Samuel  Dudley  to  go 
through  the  period  of  doubt  and  difficulty  in  religious  and 
political  beliefs  which  were  the  inevitable  part  of  the  pre- 
ceding generation.  When  he  came  to  manhood  his  mind 
was  clear  and  free  from  all  doubts  upon  the  questions 
which  had  been  solved  with  so  much  difficulty  by  his  im- 
mediate progenitors. 

The  fate  of  his  kinsman,  Lord  Guilford  Dudley,  and  his 
lovely  wife,  Lady  Jane  Grey,  were  then  comparatively  re- 
cent events,  and  the  persecutions  of  other  members  of  his 
family  for  opinion's  sake  were  kept  green  in  the  memory 
of  the  young  people  of  his  day,  and  generation.  But  it 
was  not  required  of  him  to  suffer  as  they  had  done.  He 
took  his  place  with  his  father,  who  had  resolved  all  these 
doubts,  as  an  adherent  to  the  protestant  faith,  and  of  the 
theory  that  all  men  should  have  a  voice  in  controlling  the 
government  in  which  they  lived.  He  was  not  obliged  to 
look  back,  so  far  as  we  must,  to  the  great  act  of  the  Barons 
at  Runnimede  by  which  King  John  was  forced  to  concede 
the  great  charter,  which  first  gave  to  English  speaking 
people  a  recognition  of  their  inalienable  rights,  which  had 
always  belonged  to  them  and  had  never  before  been  ac- 
knowledged by  those  who  claimed  a  God  given  right  to 
rule  their  fellowmen  in  their  own  way.  But  the  day  of 
persecution  for  opinion's  sake,  both  religious  and  political, 
had  not  yet  gone  by,  and  Samuel  Dudley  ranged  himself 
on  the  side  of  the  people,  and,  forsaking  all  that  was  dear 
to  him  in  his  native  country,  he  came  to  America  to  be- 


ADDRESS   BY  COL.   DUDLEY.  71 

come  a  simple  member  of  a  colony  which  was  determined 
to  establish  religious  freedom  and  the  right  of  the  people 
to  rule.  These  sentiments  he  inculcated  during  all  the 
fifty-three  years  he  lived  in  America,  and  to  his  teaching 
and  example  we  may  well  attribute  much  of  the  intelli- 
gence of  the  people  upon  these  questions  when  the  time 
came  for  America  to  declare  herself  a  free  and  indepen- 
dent nation. 

Arriving  at  Salem  with  his  father,  Governor  Winthrop, 
and  the  other  members  of  the  company,  we  soon  find  Sam- 
uel Dudley  settled  with  others  at  "  Newtown"  now  Cam- 
bridge. We  find  him  a  lieutenant  of  Captain  Underhill's 
company,  the  first  of  our  militia,  two  years  after  (1632) 
his  arrival  in  America  he  is  married  to  Mary  Winthrop, 
the  daughter  of  the  Governor. 

We  find  that  the  colony  upon  three  occasions  made  him 
grants  of  land,  and  that  he  erected  a  house  which  stood  at 
or  near  the  corner  of  Dunster  and  Mount  Auburn  Streets. 
In  1635,  Samuel  Dudley,  his  brothers-in-law  Bradstreet, 
Winthrop  and  Dennison  removed  to  Ipswich,  and  for  a 
time  his  father  also  lived  there.  In  1638,  he  went  with 
others  to  found  the  town  of  Salisbury.  While  there  he 
occupied  the  most  important  offices  in  the  gift  of 
the  people.  He  represented  Salisbury  in  the  General 
Court  in  1642, 1643, 1644,  1645.  He  was  many  years  the 
Chairman  of  the  Board  of  Selectmen,  and  in  1648  he 
was  elected  associate  judge  with  Richard  Bellingham  and 
Samuel  Simonds  "  to  hold  court  from  year  to  year."  He 
was  then,  as  afterwards,  often  made  a  commissioner  to 
settle  boundaries,  and,  indeed,  seems  to  have  been  here,  as 
always,  recognized  as  one  upon  whose  official  acts  the  peo- 
ple might  at  all  times  depend.  During  Mr.  Dudley's 
residence  at  Salisbury  his  wife  died,  and  sometime  later  he 
married  Mary  Bayles. 

In  1650,  the  people  of  Exeter,  New  Hampshire,  called 


72  ADDRESS   BY  COL.   DUDLEY. 

Mr.  Dudley  to  become  their  pastor  and  he  accepted  their 
call.  The  people  agreed  to  give  him  a  salary  of  forty 
pounds  a  year,  to  furnish  him  with  a  house  and  lot,  of 
which  he  was  to  have  the  use  and  the  benefit  of  all  better- 
ments. The  following  year  Mr.  Dudley  and  Samuel  Le- 
gat  were  granted  the  liberty  to  erect  a  saw  mill ;  they 
were  also  given  the  right  to  take  timber  therefor  from  the 
Commons. 

When  Exeter  came  to  feel  that  Dover  and  Hampton 
were  encroaching  upon  the  boundaries  of  the  town,  Mr. 
Dudley  and  Edward  Gilman  were  selected  as  Commission- 
ers to  the  General  Court,  to  secure  a  settlement  of  the 
question,  a  duty  that  they  satisfactorily  performed. 

In  1655,  the  town  of  Exeter  endured  a  year  of  great 
hardship  and  misfortune,  and  Mr.  Dudley  came  forward 
and  asked  the  town  to  reduce  his  salary  that  he  might 
share  his  part  of  the  public  burden.  Small  as  that  salary 
was,  with  a  large  family,  it  seems  to  me  an  act  of  heroism 
of  which  all  his  descendants  should  be  more  than  proud. 
But,  during  his  whole  life,  he  was  one  of  his  people  and  he 
labored  for  them,  suffered  with  them,  and  always  put  aside 
all  selfish  consideration  for  the  benefit  of  his  people. 
.History  already  does  him  this  much  justice.  Four  years 
later,  upon  invitation,  he  preached  for  a  considerable 
time  at  Portsmouth  and  the  people  there  were  so  much 
pleased  that  they  gave  him  a  call  to  settle  among  them, 
and  offered  him  eighty  pounds  a  year ;  double  the  salary 
for  which  he  went  to  Exeter  and  much  more  than  double 
what  he  was  then  receiving  ;  but  he  was  one  of  his  peo- 
ple and  he  would  not  leave  them  for  a  selfish  considera- 
tion. Mr.  Dudley  was  often  deputy  from  Exeter  to  the 
General  Court  at  Boston,  where  the  laws  were  then  made 
for  New  Hampshire. 

Mr.  Dudley  devoted  his  leisure  time  to  building   and 
operating  mills,  to  farming  and  to  breeding  and  raising 


ADDRESS   BY  COL.   DUDLEY.  73 

stock.  Indeed,  he  seems  to  have  been  the  first  in  this 
country  to  attempt  to  improve  the  breed  of  horses,  cattle 
and  sheep  ;  but  none  of  these  occupations  were  for  a  sin- 
gle moment  allowed  to  stand  in  the  way  of  the  perfor- 
mance of  his  duty  as  a  minister  of  the  Gospel  or  public 
officer.  To  support  his  numerous  family  without  burden- 
ing his  people,  he  did  everything  in  his  power,  but  he  was 
always  the  devoted  clergyman  and  the  faithful  public 
officer. 

In  1651,  very  soon  after  his  removal  to  Exeter,  his  sec- 
ond wife  died,  and  later  he  married  Elizabeth.  Although  I 
am  a  descendant  from  her,  as  are  all  of  Rev.  Samuel  Dud- 
ley's descendants  now  living,  who  bear  the  name  of  Dud- 
ley, I  do  not  find  anywhere  a  record  of  this  lady's  family 
name.  To  find  her  name  should  be  one  of  the  first  duties 
of  the  Association  we  have  this  day  formed. 

Rev.  Samuel  Dudley  had  eighteen  children.  Mary 
Winthrop  Dudley  was  the  mother  of  three  sons  and  two 
daughters  ;  Mary  Bayles  of  three  sons  and  two  daughters  ; 
and  Elizabeth  of  four  sons  and  four  daughters  ;  making  in 
all  ten  sons  and  eight  daughters.  The  two  eldest  sons 
lived  for  years  with  their  grandfather  and  were  educated 
by  him ;  one  of  them  died  soon  after  graduating  at  Har- 
vard College.  Indeed,  of  all  the  ten  sons,  the  only  one 
having  descendants  of  the  name  of  Dudley  now  living 
was  Stephen,  son  of  the  third  wife.  But  there  are  many 
of  them  and  they  are  generally  recognized  in  the  commu- 
nities where  they  live  as  fairly  good  people,  doing  the 
work  of  their  positions  in  life  well  and  honestly. 

I  have  no  time  to  quote  the  very  flattering  tributes 
which  historians  have  paid  to  the  life  work  of  Rev.  Samuel 
Dudley.  He  died  on  February  16,  1683,  aged  73  years. 
His  grave  has  been  sadly  neglected,  as  have  been  the 
graves  of  many  of  his  immediate  descendants.  The  res- 
toration and  permanent  care  of  these  tombs  should  be  a 


74  ADDRESS   BY  COL.    DUDLEY. 

sacred  duty  to  the  descendants,  and  I  hope  that  through 
the  association  we  have  to-day  formed,  some  action  will  be 
taken  immediately. 

Rev.  Samuel  Dudley,  has  been  much  less  praised  and 
much  less  abused,  than  his  illustrious  younger  brother. 
This  is  simply  because  he  led  a  quiet  life  among  his  peo- 
ple and  did  not  go  out  and  take  part  in  the  great  political 
struggles  of  the  time.  Although  less  known  in  his  own 
time,  and  much  less  known  in  our  later  days,  I  cannot 
avoid  the  feeling  that  his  quiet  teaching,  his  noble  exam- 
ple, his  pains  taking  and  energetic  work  among  the  peo- 
ple of  the  colony,  made  its  mark  and  influenced  the  for- 
mation of  our  Commonwealth  and  through  it  the  whole 
United  States,  quite  as  much  as  the  more  public  career  of 
his  younger  brother,  Governor  Joseph  Dudley.  Each  did 
his  part  nobly  and  well,  and  no  other  two  of  the  younger 
generation  of  the  puritan  fathers  is  more  entitled  to  credit 
and  honor  from  the  whole  country. 

Within  a  few  weeks  some  one,  favorable  to  the  Ply- 
mouth Colony,  has  spoken  of  the  Colony  of  Massachusetts 
Bay  as  a  "mere  trading  company."  Nothing  more  un- 
just could  have  been  said.  If  there  ever  was  a  devoted 
band  of  people  willing  to  sacrifice  their  property  and,  if  need 
be,  their  lives  for  opinions'  sake,  the  good  men  and  women 
who  came,  in  the  Arbella  and  in  other  ships,  to 
Salem  and  to  Boston,  was  that  band.  Far  be  it  from  me 
to  belittle  in  any  way  the  great  service  to  human  freedom 
rendered  by  those  who  came  to  Plymouth  in  the  May- 
flower and  her  consorts ;  but  I  must  claim  and  shall  in- 
sist that  equal  honor  is  due  to  the  devoted  men  and 
women  of  our  Colony.  Who  can  recall  the  "  Body  of 
Liberties  "  enacted  by  the  Massachusetts  Colony  in  1641, 
without  feeling  that  those  men  planted  here  the  germ  of 
our  free  institutions  ?  A  hint  of  it  all  was  contained  in 
the  compact  signed  in  the  cabin  of  the  Mayflower  ;  this 


ADDRESS   BY  COL.   DUDLEY.  75 

was  somewhat  elaborated  by  subsequent  legislation  at 
Plymouth.  But  our  ancestors  laid  the  broad  foundation 
for  all  the  institutions  of  our  government  and  most  of  the 
laws,  perhaps  a  little  changed  in  phraseology,  but  not  in 
spirit,  are  still  law  in  this  Commonwealth.  Those  laws 
have  endured  because  they  were  founded  upon  the  eternal 
principles  of  justice  and  had  for  their  corner  stone  and  in- 
spiration the  Commandments  handed  down  on  tables  of 
stone  from  Mount  Sinai. 

Long  years  ago  the  two  colonies  became  one,  and  their 
descendants  are  now  so  united  that  but  few  know  to  which 
they  trace  their  ancestry.  Both  were  the  fore-runners  of 
that  liberty  of  the  people  which  belongs  to  all  people  and 
which  the  men  and  women  of  all  the  world  will  some  day 
enjoy.  When  that  day  comes  the  whole  world  will  do 
honor  to  the  early  settlers  of  Massachusetts  and  they  will 
not  discriminate  between  those  who  came  to  the  South  and 
those  who  came  to  the  North  shore,  nor  between  those  who 
1  landed  here  in  1620  and  those  who  arrived  in  1630.  Ply- 
mouth and  Massachusetts  are  to  be  one  forevermore. 

Our  ancestors  struggled  with  great  problems  of  govern- 
ment and  settled  them.  Later  generations  have  manfully 
resisted  wrong  and  tyranny  as  did  their  fathers.  Much  has 
been  done ;  indeed  the  whole  world  has  been  revolution- 
ized ;  but  much  still  remains  to  be  done. 

The  human  race  will  never  see  the  end  of  the  old  con- 
flict between  right  and  wrong  that  began  in  the  Garden  of 
Eden,  until  the  millennium  co  mes  ;  therefore  there  are 
great  questions  for  us  to  settle  in  our  time ;  questions  of 
as  great  importance  as  many  of  those  for  which  our  fathers 
fought  and  for  which  so  many  sacrified  their  lives. 
That  we  may  contend  for  the  right  by  peaceable  means 
now,  is  by  no  means  evidence  that  the  questions  of  the 
hour  are  less  important  than  those  that  have  gone  before. 
Our  fathers  have  secured  to  us  the  right  and  the  opportu- 


76  ADDRESS   BY   COL.   DUDLEY. 

nity  to  settle  our  questions  upon  the  hustings  and  at  the 
ballot  box  ;  none  the  less  is  it  the  duty  of  every  free  man 
and  especially  of  every  descendant  of  such  a  race '  as  ours 
to  read,  think  and  act  at  all  times  for  the  good  of  his  coun- 
try and  his  people.  Let  the  illustrious  example  of  our  no- 
ble ancestor  stimulate  us  each  and  all  to  high  motives, 
brave  resolves  and  noble  deeds  ;  to  constant  vigilance  and 
untiring  devotion  to  duty.  Let  us  each  and  all  feel  it  to  be 
our  duty  to  advance  the  cause  of  civilization  and  freedom, 
guided  by  the  spirit  of  the  poet  who  summons  us  to* 
"MOVE  ONWARD." 

"  Why  open  history's  illumined  page 
And  read  of  heroes  of  a  by-gone  age  ? 
Is  it  that  we  may  shrink  back  in  dismay 
And  weakly  cry,  "  we  are  not  such  as  they  ?" 
Is  it  that  we  may  carve  their  monument 
With  words  of  praise  and  go  away  content  ? 
Is  it  that  we  may  every  footprint  trace 
That  marks  the.progress  of  the  mighty  race, 
And  having  found  the  spot  where  last  they  stood 
May  halt  there,  saying,  "  this  we  know  is  good  !"  ? 
Ah!  no!  the  embers  in  each  sacred  urn 
Unquenched  by  death,  with  fires  immortal  burn  ; 
Approach!  and  from  the  ashes  of  your  sires 
Relight  the  torch,  and  kindle  other  fires ; 
Ye,  who  are  called  their  sons,  do  not  again 
In  dull  routine,  with  blind,  unthinking  pain, 
What  they  did  with  conviction  fresh  and  strong, 
That  they  were  right  and  their  opponents  wrong. 
Ye  who  would  truly  to  their  place  succeed, 
Read  not  the  barren  letter  of  their  deed, 
But  catch  the  spirit  of  their  acts  and  go 
Forward  to  war  against  the  present  foe. 
Use  not  the  borrowed  armor  of  some  Saul, 
Lest  thou  beneath  the  cumbrous  burden  fall  ; 
But  when  thou  fightest  in  the  war  of  Heaven 
Take  thou  the  weapons  which  thy  God  has  given  ; 
Eat  not  the  husks  of  custom,  stale  and  dead, 
But  feed  thy  soul  upon  the  living  bread ; 


COL.    HENRY   LEE'S    LETTEK.  77 

Wear  not  the  garb  of  habit,  but  receive 

Fresh  impulse,  and  thoughts  new  vesture  weave  ; 

Be  not  a  hollow  echo,  but  a  voice 

From  the  deep  heart  and  make  the  heart  rejoice; 

Let  not  the  multitude  without  hold  sway ; 

Live  thy  own  life,  and  inward  law  obey ; 

Thy  fathers  all  the  path  of  faith  have  trod, 

And  living  faith  alone  leads  thee  to  God. 


Col.  1benn?  Xee'6  letter. 

Mr.  President  : 

There  was  a  time,  and  that  within  my  memory,  when 
all  the  inhabitants  of  New  England  and  especially  of  the  old 
town  of  Boston,  were  descendants  of  those  brave,  pious 
men,  who  quitted  pleasant  homes  in  their  native  land  to 
encounter  the  dangers  of  the  seas,  of  savage  beasts,  and 
still  more  savage  men,  to  endure  the  pangs  of  homesick- 
ness, the  hardships  of  wilderness  life,  the  rigors  of  the 
climate,  —  for  conscience's  sake. 

Now  that  we  have  become  the  asylum  of  all  those 
afflicted  or  distressed  in  mind,  body  or  estate,  the  dump- 
ing ground  of  the  world ;  it  is  getting  to  be  difficult  to 
distinguish  between  the  descendants  of  these  hardy  pio- 
neers, who  levelled  the  forests,  built  the  villages,  and 
developed  the  industries  ;  these  far-seeing  builders  of  the 
State,  the  leaders  of  whom,  bred  in  the  colleges  of  the  old 
country,  had  held  the  positions  of  clergymen,  lawyers,  or 
men  of  affairs. 

I  say,  it  is  difficult  now  to  distinguish  between  the 
rightful  heirs  of  this  goodly  heritage,  and  the  new 
comers,  driven  by  starvation  or  by  justice  hither,  luxuriat- 
ing in  the  abundance  and  freedom  created  by  the  unceas- 
ing toil  of  head  and  hand  of  eight  generations  of  our  an- 
cestors. 

I  feel  the  more  sensitive  on  this  point,  inasmuch  as  the 


78  COL.    HENRY   LEE'S   LETTER. 

prevalence  of  my  name  among  the  Mongolian  immigrants 
will  probably  lead  to  confusion  between  my  descendants 
and  those  of  Wang  or  Ching  Lee. 

The  company  here  assembled  has  this  bond  of  union, 
that  they  are  all  directly  descended  from  Thos.  Dudley,  the 
Puritan. 

One  must,  of  course,  judge  every  man  by  reference  to 
his  time.  But  the  difficulty  of  recalling  the  condition 
of  the  world,  its  advance  in  thought,  its  code  of  morals  at 
that  epoch,  is  very  great. 

Thomas  Dudley  was  a  Puritan  of  Puritans.  It  would 
have  shocked  him  to  foresee  that  by  the  process  of  evolu- 
tion, and,  as  we  think,  of  enlightenment,  the  churches  in 
Boston  and  Roxbury,  which  he  helped  to  found,  and  many 
of  his  descendants,  profess  Unitarian  faith  today.  There- 
fore, to  do  him  justice  we  must  compare  him  with  his  con- 
temporaries and  not  with  his  descendants. 

Before  his  advent  hither,  we  find  him  at  the  age  of 
twenty-one,  a  Captain  of  Volunteers  at  the  siege  of 
Amiens,  though  his  father,  Captain  Roger  Dudley,  had 
been  slain  in  the  same  service  seven  years  previous  at  the 
battle  of  Ivry. 

We  know  that  his  legal  training  fitted  him  to  become 
the  Steward  of  the  Earl  of  Lincoln,  that  in  that  capacity 
he  not  only  paid  off  the  heavy  debt  on  the  vast  estates,  but 
also  acquired  a  great  influence  over  the  character  and  con- 
duct of  that  liberal  young  nobleman,  and  retained  the 
friendship  of  Lady  Bridget,  his  wife,  to  whom  was  ad- 
dressed the  well  known  letter  from  his  new  home. 

We  feel  sure  then  that  he  was  a  brave  soldier,  and  a 
man  of  great  force  and  probity  of  character,  not  slothful 
in  business  ;  just  the  man  to  sacrifice  all  worldly  consider- 
ations for  liberty  of  thought  and  action  in  politics  and  re- 
ligion. 

Our  information  respecting  him  here  is  chiefly  derived 


COL.    HENRY  LEE'S   LETTER.  79 

from  the  journal  of  the  other  great  founder  of  our  Puri- 
tan Commonwealth,  to  whom  he  was  closely  allied  as  a 
magistrate,  and  afterwards  as  a  brother-in-law. 

Winthrop,  when  superseded  by  Dudley  as  Governor, 
speaks  of  him  thus  respectfully, — "Besides,  this  gentle- 
man was  a  man  of  approved  wisdom  and  godliness,  and 
of  much  good  service  to  the  country,  and  therefore  it  was 
his  due  to  share  in  such  honor  and  benefit  as  the  country 
had  to  bestow." 

Their  theories  of  government  did  not,  however,  always 
coincide,  "  the  former  (Winthrop)  carrying  matters  with 
more  lenity,  and  the  latter  with  more  severity  ;"  — and  I 
think  that  impartial  judges  would  prefer  Winthrop's  leni- 
ty to  our  ancestor's  severity  ;  and  we  must  confess  that  in 
him  justice  was  not  enough  seasoned  with  mercy,  that  he 
was  choleric  and  somewhat  jealous,  that  he  treated  his 
brother  magistrate  with  undue  and  unrelenting  bitterness 
on  several  occasions,  and  that  he  lacked  that  magnanimity 
which  preserved  Winthrop's  relations  with  Endicott  and 
Vane  and  Roger  Williams,  two  of  whom  he  had  censured 
and  the  other  banished. 

"  Mr.  Dudley  was  somewhat  hard  at  first  to  be  brought 
to  see  any  evil  in  it ;  but  at  last  he  was  convinced  and 
did  acknowledge  it,  and  they  were  reconciled.  " 

The  heart-felt  repentance  of  this  rigid  man  of  justice, 
this  "  trusty  old  stud,"  goes  far  to  redeem  his  choleric  out- 
bursts. 

On  one  occasion  he  unburdened  himself  thus,  —  "  That 
he  was  well  persuaded  of  the  Governor's  love  to  him,  and 
did  prize  it  so  much  if  as  they  had  given  him  X100  in- 
stead of  £20  he  would  not  have  had  it.  " 

After  another  outburst  of  cantankerousness,  to  which 
Winthrop  returned  a  soft  answer  ;  he  writes, —  "Your  over- 
coming yourself  hath  overcome  me." 

It  seems  as  if  the  proper  word   to   apply  to   him   was 


80  COL.    HENRY   LEE'S   LETTER. 

crusty,  and  the  crust  once  broken  there  was  a  soft  and 
sweet  inside. 

What  a  pretty  passage  in  the  lives  of  these  two  sorely 
tried  men,  beset  with  danger  from  abroad  and  dissension 
from  within,  both  disinterested  and  upright ; — this  peace- 
ful episode  at  Concord,  whither  they  went  to  divide  their 
lands, — "where  they  offered  each  other  the  first  choice, 
but  because  the  deputy's  was  first  granted  and  himself  had 
store  of  land  already,  the  Governor  (Winthrop)  yielded 
him  the  choice.  So  at  the  place  where  the  deputy's  land 
was  to  begin  there  were  two  great  stones,  which  they 
called  the  Two  Brothers  in  remembrance  that  they  were 
brothers  by  their  childrens'  marriage  and  did  so  brotherly 
agree. 

Dudley  had  the  courage  of  his  convictions ; — no  man  was 
left  ignorant  of  his  sentiments,  and  no  man  ever  questioned 
their  sincerity.  He  had  constancy ; — having  put  his  hand 
to  the  plough  he  never  turned  back,  as  did  many  of  the 
first  generation,  forsaking  their  brethren  here. 

So  closely  intertwined  were  the  two  leaders  of  the  little 
colony  that  one  cannot  help  associating  them  and  compar- 
ing them  together.  In  so  doing,  we  must  bear  in  mind 
that  Dudley  was  the  elder  of  the  two,  his  responsibilities 
at  home  had  been  heavy,  his  word  had  almost  been  law  to 
his  noble  master,  his  was  a  nature  not  afflicted  with  doubt, 
those  who  differed  from  him  must  surely  be  in  error. 

Both  these  men,  with  their  associate  leaders  in  church 
and  state,  were  far  before  their  time  in  the  purity  of  their 
lives  and  the  elevation  of  their  thoughts.  For  they  indeed 
believed  that  things  seen  are  temporal  and  things  unseen 
eternal,  and  so  believing  laid  deep  the  foundations  of  their 
Puritan  Commonwealth. 

For  one  I  congratulate  myself  that  among  my  ancestors 
I  can  include  the  brave,  true,  constant  Thomas  Dudley,  the 
unflinching,  uncompromising  Defender  of  the  Faith. 

HENEY  LEE. 


INTRODUCTION   OF  DR.   DUDLEY.  81 

The  President :  Johnson,  in  his  wonder-working  Provi- 
dence, speaking  of  New  England  at  about  the  time  of 
Dudley's  death,  says  that  the  people  are,  "through  the 
blessing  of  the  Lord,  so  increased  that  they  have  not  only 
fed  their  elder  sisters,  Virginia,  Barbadoes,  and  many  of 
the  Summer  Islands,  that  were  preferred  before  her,  but 
also  the  grandmother  of  us  all,  even  the  fertile  isle  of 
Great  Britain." 

There  is  a  gentleman  here  who  not  only  knows  all 
about  the  landing  of  the  Arbella  at  Salem  on  that  de- 
lightful day  in  June,  but  having  "  visited  the  grandmother 
of  us  all,"  largely  for  the  purpose  of  visiting  and  examin- 
ing the  famous  Dudley  Castle,  a  picture  of  which  he  has 
kindly  allowed  us  to  use  in  adorning  our  menu,  may  well 
be  called  upon  to  say  something  about  what  he  saw  and 
heard. 

But  this  is  not  all.  Winthrop  says,  under  date  of  June 
12,  1630,  of  the  landing  of  the  Arbella,  "  About  four  in 
the  morning  we  were  near  our  port.  We  shot  off  two 
pieces  of  ordnance,  and  sent  our  skiff  to  Mr.  Peirce  his 
ship  which  lay  in  the  harbor,  and  had  been  there  days  be- 
fore. About  an  hour  after,  Mr.  Allerton  came  aboard  us 
in  a  shallop  as  he  was  sailing  to  Pemaquid.  As  we  stood 
towards  the  harbor,  we  saw  another  shallop  coming 
towards  us  ;  so  we  stood  to  meet  her,  and  passed  through 
the  narrow  strait  between  Baker's  Isle  and  Little  Isle,  and 
came  to  an  anchor  a  little  within  the  islands.  After,. 
Mr.  Peirce  came  aboard  us,  and  returned  to  fetch  Mr. 
Endecott,  and  with  him  Mr.  Skelton  and  Capt.  Levett. 
"We,  that  were  of  the  assistants,  and  some  other  gentle- 
men, and  some  of  the  women,  and  our  captain,  returned 
with  them  to  Nahumkeak,  where  we  supped  with  a  good 
venison  pasty  and  good  beer,  and  at  night  we  returned 
to  our  ship,  but  some  of  the  women  stayed  behind.  In 
the  meantime  most  of  our  people  went  ashore  upon  the= 


82  REMABKS   BY  DB.   DUDLEY. 

land  of  Cape  Ann,  which  lay  very  near  us,  and  gathered 
store  of  fine  strawberries." 

Now,  the  gentleman  I  have  already  referred  to,  but 
have  not  mentioned  by  name,  can  not  only  tell  us  about 
Dudley  castle,  but  I  believe  can  also  tell  us  about  those 
"  fine  strawberries  "  on  Cape  Ann ;  and,  more  than  that, 
may  possibly  explain  how  it  is  that  they  used  to  spell 
Salem  in  such  a  horrible  way  [Nahumkeak],  Let  me, 
then,  at  once,  present  to  you  Dr.  Albion  M.  Dudley,  of 
Salem. 


IRemarfcs  of  S>r-  2>uMe\>. 


Dr.  Dudley  said,  "Dear  Brothers,  Sisters,  Cousins  and 
Aunts  (laughter)  :  I  feel  almost  overwhelmed  by  the  ex- 
ceedingly flattering  introduction  of  myself  by  the  presid- 
ing officer  and  so  am  hardly  equal  to  the  occasion.  I  re 
quested  that  I  should  not  be  called  upon,  there  being  so 
many  speakers.  The  subject  assigned  me  is  one  which, 
while  I  have  given  the  matter  some  considerable  thought 
and  study,  could  certainly  be  responded  to  by  others  much 
better  than  by  myself.  I  am  quite  sure  I  could  not  tell 
you  much  with  regard  to  "Cape  Ann  strawberries,"  either 
of  the  past  or  present,  and  as  for  the  description  of  the 
landing  of  our  distinguished  ancestor  and  his  family,  with 
the  others  of  that  noble  band,  at  Salem,  in  June,  1630,  and 
just  why  our  city  was  then  called  "Nahumkeak,"  though 
more  recently  "  Naumkeag,"  I  had  expected  that  a  dis- 
tinguished member  of  our  family  from  Salem,  the  Hon. 
Stephen  H.  Phillips,  ex-Attorney  General  of  this  common- 
wealth, would  be  present  to  speak  to  you  in  relation  to 
those  matters  for  he  could  do  it  so  much  better  than  I 
can.  In  his  regretted  absence,  I  think  the  very  best  thing 


REMARKS   BY  DR.   DUDLEY.  83 

I  can  do  is  to  extend  to  you  all  a  very  cordial  invitation  to 
pay  our  ancient  city  a  visit.  If  you  do,  I  can  take  you  to 
the  spot  where  tradition  says  the  passengers  of  the  "Arbel- 
la"  were  landed ;  you  can  walk  along  the  shore  where  our 
ancestors  first  trod  the  soil  of  this  country ;  you  can  visit 
the  same  little  church  where  Roger  Williams  preached  and 
the  house  where  he  lived  until  banished  by  the  edict  of 
Gov.  Thomas  Dudley ;  I  can  show  you  the  tomb  of  Gov- 
ernor Simon  Bradstreet  the  husband  of  Anne  Dudley,  and 
I  am  sure  you  will  find  enough  of  historical  interest  to 
well  repay  you  for  your  visit  if  you  come.  I  shall  not  on 
this  occasion  'take  up  much  of  your  time  in  the  descrip- 
tion of  my  two  visits  to  the  Dudley  castle  in  England.  At 
some  future  time  I  will  endeavor  to  go  more  into  detail. 
In  1878  and  also  in  1881  I  visited  England  and  the  old 
ancient  castle  where  the  name  Dudley  originated.  I 
spent  considerable  time  in  and  about  this  famous  old  castle 
and  made  a  careful  and  minute  examination  of  every  nook 
and  corner.  I  also  visited  a  number  of  the  libraries  where 
may  be  found  the  books  which  give  us  information  con- 
cerning the  early  history  of  our  family  in  England.  I  vis- 
ited the  three  castles  in  that  country  which  are  connected 
with  our  family  name,  viz.,  Wai-wick,  which  is  still  occupied; 
Kenilworth,  made  famous  by  Sir  Walter  Scott,  which  is 
now  a  magnificent  ruin,  but  about  which  still  lingers  the 
story  of  Queen  Elizabeth,  Amy  Robsart,  and  Robert  Dud- 
ley, Earl  of  Leicester  ;  and  Dudley  Castle  at  Dudley,  the 
oldest  ruin  in  England,  built  in  the  year  700,  by  Athelstan, 
the  reigning  monarch  of  that  day  in  that  particular  region. 
It  was  here  that  we  find  our  name  originated.  The  best 
authorities  give  the  name  of  that  monarch  as  "Dudo"  and 
the  plain  about  there  was  known  as  Dudo's  lea  or  leigh, 
and  hence  through  varying  evolutions  we  arrive  at  the 
present  family  name,  although,  in  England  it  is  still  some- 
times spelled  Dudleigh.  The  picture  upon  the  menu  be- 


84  REMARKS   BY  DR.   DUDLEY. 

fore  you  represents  the  original  keep  with  its  ancient  Ro- 
man tower.  It  still  stands  to-day,  having  been  many  times 
restored  after  the  decay  of  ages,  and  it  will  probably  remain 
for  centuries  to  come.  To  it,  from  time  to  time,  have  been 
added  more  modern  structures  as  may  be  seen  by  the  pic- 
tures I  have  placed  upon  exhibition,  but  it  is  uninhabited 
now  in  any  portion  of  it,  but  all  an  historical  old  ruin 
and  a  reminder  of  its  past  grandeur  and  the  original  his- 
tory of  our  family  name.  I  spent  a  delightful  week  in 
that  locality  and  if  time  would  permit  might  speak  more 
at  length  upon  this  castle  and  all  its  surroundings.  I  could 
trace  down  the  names  of  nearly  all  of  its  owners  and  oc- 
cupants to  the  present  time.  I  visited  the  "town  home" 
in  London  of  the  late  Earl  Dudley,  then  living  on  the  es- 
tate formerly  owned  and  occupied  by  the  late  Duke  of 
Westminster.  Although  the  family  were  away  at  the  time 
of  my  visit,  I  was  cordially  welcomed  by  the  Secretary  of 
the  Earl  and  allowed  to  inspect  the  house  and  the  rare 
collection  of  works  of  art  with  which  it  is  so  richly  adorned. 
I  brought  away  pictures  of  the  old  Earl  and  his  beautiful 
young  wife  and  children  which  you  have  seen  upon  exhibi- 
tion to-day.  There  are  others  whom  you  are  anxious  to 
hear  from  and,  as  it  is  sometimes  said  in  Congress,  I  must 
ask  leave  to  address  you  at  more  length,  upon  this  most  in- 
teresting subject,  hi  print,  and  possibly  in  the  proceedings 
of  this  day  which  are  to  be  published.  I  thank  you  for 
your  kind  attention. 

(Dr.  Dudley  with  the  consent  of  the  Board  of  Directors 
will  endeavor  at  some  future  meeting  of  the  Association  to 
give  an  illustrated  talk  upon  the  Dudley  name  and  Castles 
of  England,  which  will  be  of  more  interest  than  anything 
which  could  be  prepared  in  season  for  this  report.) 


ADDKESS   BY   DR.    EDWARD   EVERETT    HALE.  85 

The  President :  We  have  with  us  to-night  a  gentleman 
who  undertook  to  correct  the  accident  of  birth  and  to  be- 
come one  of  us  by  the  only  course  open  to  him. 

You  will  remember  that  among  the  old  Romans  it  was 
the  custom,  and  religion  too,  that  when  a  woman  married 
out  of  her  tribe  or  gens  she  thereby  became  a  member  of 
the  tribe  or  gens  of  her  husband,  and  was  obliged  to  wor- 
ship his  ancestors,  not  her  own.  Now  in  these  women's 
rights  days  we  have  reversed  all  that  very  largely.  In  fact, 
I  happen  to  know  of  one  or  two  instances  where  the 
woman's  plighted  faith  could  only  be  obtained  on  the 
solemn  promise  of  the  prospective  husband  to  assume  the 
wife's  family  name  on  their  marriage,  and,  of  course,  to 
worship  her  ancestors  ;  and  thus  the  husband  loyally  took 
the  wife's  name. 

Now  this  was  not  done  in  the  present  instance,  except 
indeed,  as  to  worship  of  ancestors;  but  I  will  ask  Dr.  Hale  to 
tell  us  why,  and,  at  the  same  time,  to  "lend  a  hand"  at 
these  festivities. 


Hfcbres0  of  IRev,  j£fcwarfc  Everett  1balet  2BU  JBU 


Mr.  Hale  said  that  his  marriage  into  the  Dudley  family 
forty  years  ago  had  been  so  successful  that  he  found  one 
of  his  boys  had  followed  in  the  same  steps.  He  spoke  in 
some  detail  of  the  evidences  which  make  it  certain  that 
the  Massachusetts  colony  would  never  have  crossed  here 
but  for  the  religious  convictions  of  the  men  and  women 
who  united  in  it.  When  they  came  here  they  attended 
to  their  business,  like  honest,  Christian  men  and  women  ; 
but  it  was  absurd  to  argue  from  that  that  the  colony  was 
not  a  religious  community.  At  the  bottom  they  believed 
that  they  were  all  sons  of  God  or  daughters  of  God,  that 
they  were  all  kings  and  all  priests,  and  each  man  of  them 


86  ADDRESS   BY  DR.    EDWARD   EVERETT   HALE. 

went  to  his  daily  duty  because  it  was  his  religious  convic- 
tion that  he  worked  with  God  in  going  to  that  duty.  I  be- 
lieve that  this  is  a  fair  statement  of  the  conviction  of  the 
great  majority  of  the  first  settlers  of  the  Bay  Colony ;  and 
such,  I  believe,  were  the  ancestors  of  the  Dudley  family. 

The  triumphs  and  prosperity  of  America  at  the  present 
time  are  astounding  to  the  foreigner  who  comes  to  our 
shores.  He  cannot  understand  it.  In  the  thirty  years  last 
past  the  wealth  of  this  country  has  increased  four-fold,  and 
a  great  part  of  this  increase  has  come  from  the  push  and 
energy  of  New  England,  or  from  the  men  who  had  a  New 
England  training.  You  will  find  them  all  over  the  coun- 
try, and  how  do  they  do  it?  They  do  it  simply  because 
they  were  brought  up  to  live  to  the  glory  of  God. 
You  do  not  find  it  in  any  other  country.  New  England's 
sons  are  taught  to  live  to  the  glory  of  God.  They  are  sent 
out  all  over  the  country  with  that  teaching  uppermost  in 
their  hearts,  and  that  has  made  them  push  ahead;  among 
other  things  they  have  helped  to  accumulate  the  wealth  of 
the  country.  That  is  what  has  made  the  Dudleys  do  all 
that  they  have  toward  the  glory  of  God  and  for  the  advance- 
ment of  the  country.  Nine-tenths  of  the  men  of  New 
England  who  have  left  New  England  homes,  are  honored 
citizens  of  our  sister  states.  Do  not  think  of  oysters  and 
lobsters  when  you  think  of  a  New  England  man  or  a  Dud- 
ley, but  think  of  strong  women  and  honest  men,  who  lived 
and  died  to  the  glory  of  God. 


The  President :  We  have  with  us  to-night  a  gentleman 
whom  you  all  will  wish  to  hear.  In  the  days  of  our  an- 
cestor here  they  had  but  one  lawyer,  and  he  did  not  stay 
long,  for  the  people  seemed  to  think  they  did  not  need  a 
lawyer's  assistance.  It  may  be  they  did  not.  At  any  rate 
he  soon  returned  home  to  England  and  then  wrote  some 


ADDRESS   OF   HON.   ELIAS   DUDLEY  FREEMAN.         87 

plain  truths  about  our  ancestors  (lawyers  always  tell  the 
truth),  and  but  for  his  book,  we  should  be  without  some 
important  facts  in  the  history  of  those  early  days.  Now, 
we  have  a  lawyer  with  us  to-night  and  I  have  no  doubt  he 
can  tell  us  some  plain  truths  ;  and  I  will  introduce  to  you 
as  our  last  speaker,  Elias  Dudley  Freeman,  of  Portland, 
Maine. 


of  Ibon.  jeitas  3>uWeg  freeman. 

MR.  PRESIDENT,  AND  LADIES  AND  GENTLEMEN  : 

The  hour  is  late,  and  I  think  you  will  agree  with  me 
that  the  "  feast  of  reason  "  has  held  its  own  with  the  rest 
of  the  viands.  Dr.  Dudley  has  explained  to  us  that  we 
are  "  evoluted  "  from  the  Dodo,  now  unhappily  extinct ; 
the  President  and  others  have  told  in  eloquent  language 
of  the  past  glory  and  the  rising  greatness  of  the  Dudley 
family ;  and  our  venerable  historian,  Dean  Dudley,  with 
his  delightful  rhetoric,  has  "gilded  the  path  to  the 
Tomb !"  I  have  been  asked  to  follow  with  a  few  words  for 
the  State  of  Maine  Dudleys,  but,  as  I  have  said,  the  hour 
is  late,  and  with  their  permission  I  will  suppress  my  care- 
fully type-written  impromptu  speech,  and  tell  a  short 
story,  out  of  respect  to  my  professional  fore-runner,  the 
first  lawyer  of  the  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony,  who  "  was 
looked  upon  with  suspicion  "  probably  because  he  was  in 
the  habit  of  telling  stories.  Being  called  upon,  in  these 
surroundings,  to  speak  in  praise  of  one's  ancestors  reminds 
me  of  a  circumstance  which  happened  to  a  friend  of  mine 
one  Sunday  last  summer,  at  a  small  coast  town  in  Maine. 
He  attended  the  little  church  in  the,  morning  and,  the 
minister,  a  gaunt,  cadaverous  man,  offered  up  a  most 
humble  and  abject  apology  to  the  Almighty,  that  a  vile, 
wretched,  grovelling  worm  of  the  dust  should  presume  to 


88  ADDRESS   OF   HON.   ELIAS   DUDLEY  FREEMAN. 

address  Him  in  behalf  of  other  grovelling  worms  no  more 
worthy  than  himself.  My  friend  said  to  his  companion, 
"  That  man  is  hungry !  What  he  needs  is  something  to 
eat !"  So,  after  service,  he  made  the  minister's  acquaint- 
ance, took  him  off  to  his  hotel  and  gave  him  the  best  din- 
ner he  ever  had.  That  evening,  he  said,  the  man  stood 
up  in  the  pulpit  as  straight  as  an  arrow,  looked  the  Al- 
mighty right  in  the  face  and  thanked  Him  fervently  that 
he  had  "  made  man  just  a  little  lower  than  the  angels  !" 
So  much  for  what  a  good  dinner  can  do  ! 

But  if  we  can  believe  much  that  has  been  written,  the 
Dudleys  have  never  stood  in  need  of  such  adventitious  aid 
to  self-respect ;  for  the  "  Dudley  pride  "  is  traditional 
from  Sir  Walter  Scott  to  Dr.  Holmes.  I  do  not  know 
how  much  historic  justice  there  may  be  in  this,  but  I  can- 
not believe  it  to  have  been  an  arrogant  pride  or  an  o'er- 
weening  self-esteem,  for  these  are  weaknesses  which  ill 
comport  with  the  strength  of  character  which  made  our 
ancestors  men  of  authority ;  but  that  the  Dudleys  have 
been  possessed  of  that  degree  of  personal  dignity  and  self- 
respect  which  by  small  minds  is  often  mistaken  for  pride, 
I  can  well  understand.  The  Dudleys  whom  I  know,  of 
the  seventh  and  eighth  generation,  had  that  kind  of  pride 
written  in  their  faces  and,  as  an  aged  friend  of  mine  used 
to  say,  "  God  writes  a  legible  hand  !" 

The  sons  and  grandsons  of  the  brave  Lieut.  James,  the 
great-grandson  of  Gov.  Thomas,  were  early  settlers  in 
Maine.  The  virgin  forests  and  the  broad  waterways  at- 
tracted them  from  Raymond  and  Brentwood  in  New 
Hampshire,  and  as  early  as  1760  we  find  their  names  in 
the  records  of  Pownalborough  (now  Dresden),  Pittston, 
Readfield,  Winthrop,  and  Mt.  Vernon  in  the  region  of  the 
Kennebec.  Timber  lands  and  kindred  enterprises  seem  to 
have  been  attractive  to  the  Dudleys  from  the  days  when 
the  Reverend  Samuel  built  the  saw-mill  at  Exeter  in 


ADDRESS  OF   HON.   ELIAS   DUDLEY   FREEMAN.         89 

1652,  down  to  his  descendant,  Frank  Dudley,  of  the  pres- 
ent generation,  whose  name  and  whose  ships  are  as  well 
known  in  the  great  lumber  markets  of  South  America  as 
in  the  city  and  harbor  of  Portland. 

Late  in  the  last  century,  we  find  the  younger  grand- 
children of  Lieut.  James  moving  eastward  to  the  Penob- 
scot,  my  great-grandfather  James  building  for  his  growing 
family  a  home  at  Hampden,  then  and  afterwards  a  place 
of  much  importance  by  reason  of  its  foreign  and  domestic 
trade.  To  this  old  Dudley  homestead  my  steps  turn  every 
year  with  almost  reverent  affection.  It  was  built  when 
this  century  was  born,  and  the  stirring  events  of  the  first 
and  second  decades  were  fresh  in  the  minds  of  its  occu- 
pants whom  I  knew. 

From  the  dormer  window  of  the  spacious  garret,  the 
playroom  of  my  childhood,  the  children  of  1814  watched 
for  the  British  fleet  which  had  threatened'  to  lay  the  town 
in  waste,  while  below,  the  mothers,  with  heavy  hearts  but 
busy  hands,  made  lint  and  cartridges  to  aid  a  vain  resis- 
tance. 

I  remember  how  eagerly  we  children  of  the  ninth  gen- 
eration used  to  listen  to  those  "  tales  of  a  grandfather  "  of 
the  brief  and  unequal  struggle, — how  the  Redcoats  sacked 
the  town  and  carried  our  great-grandfather  with  others  a 
prisoner  to  Castine  ;  how  brave  Capt.  Morris,  rather  than 
surrender  the  frigate  "  Adams  "  to  the  enemy,  applied  the 
match  to  the  magazine,  and  sunk  the  ship  at  her  moorings 
in  plain  sight  of  the  old  home. 

I  recall  his  stories  of  the  Penobscot  Indians,  disappoint- 
ingly friendly  but  always  potentially  hostile,  to  our  ro- 
mantic minds  ;  the  London-made  piano  with  its  brass 
strings  and  spindle  legs,  and  the  bayonet  marks  of  British 
vandalism  ;  our  grandfather  Dudley's  sword,  innocent  of 
Hoodguiltiness,  but  which  we  were  sure  must  have  slain 
its  thousands ! 


90         ADDRESS   OF   HON.   ELIAS   DUDLEY  FKEEMAN. 

I  remember  well  the  Dudleys  of  the  seventh  generation 
who  lived  in  this  town  of  Hampden  in  my  boyhood ;  my 
grandfather,  Elias  Dudley,  of  heroic  stature,  as  erect  at 
nearly  fourscore  years  as  any  Indian  chief  who  visited  him 
half  a  century  before,  a  man  who  had  served  his  country 
and  his  state  in  places  of  honor,  and  who  left  to  his  chil- 
dren a  name  untarnished,  "  rather  to  be  chosen  than  great 
riches."  John  Dudley,  his  younger  brother,  whose  snow- 
white  hair  seemed  always  a  crown  of  glory  above  a  face 
reflecting  in  its  smile  the  sunlight  of  his  pure  soul. 

The  shifting  currents  of  commerce  have  silenced  the 
busy  mills,  the  ships  which  bore  their  products  to  foreign 
lands  have  long  ago  spread  their  white  wings  for  their  last 
voyage,  the  wharves  and  warehouses  are  crumbling  to  de- 
cay, and  the  name  of  Dudley  is  found  only  on  mossy 
headstones  and  in  the  recorded  annals  of  every  good  work. 
But  the  old  mansion  which  has  sheltered  five  generations 
of  our  name  still  looks  down  upon  the  mighty  river  as  it 
rolls  in  majesty  to  the  sea,  and  in  our  hearts  the  memory 
of  past  years  and  noble  lives  "  doth  breed  perpetual  bene- 
diction." 

I  may  be  an  humble  and  perhaps  degenerate  descendant 
of  Thomas  Dudley,  but  I  yield  to  no  man  in  admiration  of 
his  virtues  and  example,  and  in  gratitude  for  the  noble 
character  and  unpolluted  blood  which  he  transmitted  not 
only  to  the  third  and  fourth,  but  even  to  the  seventh  and 
eighth  generation  of  men  and  women  who  feared  God- 
"  Pride  of  birth,"  says  Lowell,  "  takes  two  forms  ;  one 
traces  itself  complacently  to  a  coronet,  the  other  defiantly 
to  a  lapstone.  It  is  precisely  the  same  sentiment  in  both 
cases,  only  one  is  the  positive  and  the  other  the  negative 
pole  of  it !"  Very  neat  and  epigrammatic,  but  defective 
in  generalization. 

There  is,  I  believe,  a  proper  and  legitimate  pride  of 
birth  which  is  neither  complacent  nor  defiant ;  not  vanity 


ADDKBSS   OF   HON.   ELIAS   DUDLEY   FREEMAN.         91 

feeding  upon  the  honors  of  the  past,  but  an  inheritance 
furnishing  inspiration  for  the  present.  A  pride  which 
surveys  the  grandeur  of  our  country, — the  mightiest  factor 
upon  earth  in  its  relation  to  the  human  race, — which  fore- 
casts the  future  of  this  land  upon  which  must  be  wrought 
out  and  solved  those  great  social  problems  which  lie  be- 
tween us  and  that  "  far-off  divine  event "  to  which  the 
whole  creation  with  swift  and  strenuous  celerity  is  moving 
on,  and  which  says,  "  Our  ancestors  in  those  early  days  of 
self-denial  laid  the  foundations  of  this  republic  deep  in  the 
fear  of  God,  and  our  inheritance  is  the  work  which  they 
began  !"  Let  this  be  the  "Dudley  pride,"  that  our  family 
name  bring  to  us  not  complacency  but  responsibility  ;  that 
we  do  nothing  to  bring  discredit  upon  the  fame  of  Thomas 
Dudley,  and  that  to  the  limit  of  our  influence  the  institu- 
tions which  he  labored  to  found  may  not  perish  from  the 
earth. 


The  President :  You  will  remember  that  I  have  already 
mentioned  Rev.  John  Woodbridge,  Governor  Dudley's 
"  very  loving  son  ",  but  I  did  not  tell  you  all  he  wrote  to 
him,  nor  have  I  time  to  do  so.  Mr.  Woodbridge  married 
Mercy,  the  Governor's  daughter.  Woodbridge  was  in 
some  doubt  what  course  he  should  pursue,  and  the  fatherly 
solicitude  and  beautiful  character  of  our  ancestor  is  made 
to  appear  with  wonderful  clearness  in  some  other  things 
which  he  said  in  that  letter. 

Listen  :  "  I  desire  that  you  would  seriously  consider  of 
what  I  say,  and  take  advice  of  your  uncle,  Mr.  Noyes,  or 
whom  you  think  meetest  about  it ;  withal  considering  that 
no  man's  opinion  in  a  case  wherein  he  is  interested 
*  *  *  *  is  absolutely  to  be  allowed  without  com- 
paring his  reason  with  others.  *  *  *  *  I  need  say 
no  more.  The  Lord  direct  and  bless  you,  your  wife  and 
children,  whom  I  would  fain  see,  and  have  again  some 
thought  of  it,  if  1  live  till  next  summer.  " 


92  ADDRESS   OF   REV.   W.    S.   WOODBRIDGE. 

Now,  we  have  with  us  a  lineal  descendant  of  that  very 
John  and  Mercy  Woodbridge,  a  distinguished  son  of  a 
distinguished  ancestor,  whom  I  have  had  the  pleasure  of 
knowing  for  many  years.  I  have  now  the  pleasure  of  pre- 
senting him  to  you,  the  Rev.  Warren  S.  Woodbridge,  of 
Medford. 


Hfcbress  of  1Re\>. 


MR.  PRESIDENT,  FRIENDS  AND  KINDRED  : — I  am  very 
glad  to  be  here  tonight  as  a  member  of  this  family,  and  as 
a  descendant  of  so  good  an  ancestor.  Fifteen  years  ago  I 
was  not  aware  that  I  was  descended  from  the  strong  Puri- 
tan Governor.  At  that  time  I  chanced  to  find  a  genealogy 
of  the  Woodbridge  family,  and  then  learned  to  what  race 
I  belonged.  My  great-grandfather's  name  was  Dudley 
Woodbridge,  which  is  an  indication  that  in  his  day  the 
Dudley  traditions  had  not  died  out  in  our  line. 

I  have  had  some  peculiar  sensations  since  I  came  into 
this  room.  I  have  met  here  friends  of  long  ago,  a  college 
friend  of  twenty  years  standing,  and  several  others,  and 
to-night,  for  the  first  time,  have  learned  that  they  are  my 
blood  relations,  descendants  of  the  Rev.  John  Woodbridge 
and  Mercy  Dudley.  Then  again  it  strikes  me  rather 
strangely  to  look  about  this  room  into  all  your  strange 
faces — into  the  faces  of  this  good — but  we  will  let  the 
compliments  pass,  the  hour  is  late, — into  all  your  faces, 
and  to  realize  that  you  are  nearly  all  my  relatives,  all  in 
the  family.  And  when  I  think,  too,  that  this  is  only  a 
representation  of  how  many  others  there  are,  who  are  not 
here,  I  shall  expect  now  as  I  go  about  to  meet  a  Dudley 
on  every  corner.  I  shall  have  a  fellow  feeling  with  all 
New  England  and  be  more  at  home  everywhere. 


ADDRESS   OF   REV.   W.    S.   WOODBRIDGE.  93 

I  can  join  heartily  in  the  high  praises  which  have  been 
bestowed  upon  our  illustrious  ancestor.  It  is  not  neces- 
sary that  I  repeat  the  good  words,  but  I  may  be  allowed, 
however,  to  add  one  other  to  the  list  of  compliments  al- 
ready passed  :  I  cannot  help  thinking  that  it  is  a  testi- 
mony to  the  excellent  judgment  and  sound  wisdom  of  the 
Puritan  governor  that  he  accepted  an  alliance  with  the 
Woodbridge  family ;  and  we  think  that  Mercy  inherited 
something  of  these  qualities  from  her  father  when  she 
looked  with  favor  upon  the  Rev.  John  Woodbridge,  our 
ancestor.  On  the  other  hand,  we  cannot  say  enough  in 
praise  of  the  clear  discernment  and  excellent  taste  of  the 
Rev.  John,  when  he  went  a-wooing  Mercy  Dudley. 

We  do  well  to  trace  our  lineage,  especially  when  it 
carries  us  back  to  the  fountain  head  of  so  much  good.  I 
am  most  glad  to  pay  my  tribute  of  high  regard  to  our 
Puritan  ancestry.  I  have  always  admired  and  reverenced 
their  sturdy  virtues.  Their  courage,  their  moral  force, 
their  conscientiousness,  their  faithfulness,  their  faith  and 
trust  and  hope,  are  qualities  that  must  imbue  our  commu- 
nity and  national  life,  if  we  are  rightly  to  develop  as  a 
people  and  to  have  stability  as  a  nation.  I  do  not  agree 
with  their  theology,  but  I  reverence  their  spirit.  Those 
who  are  holding  up  their  faults  in  a  blaze  of  modern  light, 
are,  it  seems  to  me,  searching  out  the  lesser  things  and 
failing  to  appreciate  the  greater. 

These  gatherings,  of  which  I  trust  there  will  be  more, 
will  best  serve  their  purpose,  if  they  are  not  only  pleasant 
social  occasions,  but  also  awaken  in  us  a  spirit  of  emula- 
tion and  a  stronger  appreciation  of  the  virtues  of  those 
whom  we  call  to  mind.  Let  us  then  carry  away  to-night 
not  only  the  pleasant  memories  of  this  hour,  but  above  all 
else  a  purpose  to  cultivate  in  our  hearts,  and  to  carry  into 
our  home  life,  into  our  occupations,  into  our  public  life, 
into  all  our  walks  and  ways,  the  strong  virtues  of  the  good 
man  whom  we  honor  to-night. 


94 

president's  Closing  IRemarfcs. 


At  the  close  of  Rev.  Mr.  Woodbridge's  address,  the 
President  announced  that  the  hour  had  now  come  when 
the  meeting  should  draw  to  a  close.  He  congratulated 
the  people  there  assembled,  upon  the  eminent  success  of 
the  first  Dudley  Reunion  and  hoped  that  it  was  but  a 
forerunner  of  other  and  equally  pleasant  meetings  to  come. 

Though  this,  the  first  reunion  was  adjourned,  and  it  was 
already  late,  many  lingered  to  take  another  look  at  the 
many  relics,  memorials  and  heirlooms  there  on  exhibition, 
and  handed  down  in  the  several  branches  of  the  family. 

Many  people  had  here  met  for  the  first  time  and  found 
very  pleasant  acquaintance  with  each  other.  Many  friends 
had  here  met  to  learn  for  the  first  time  the  very  pleasing 
and  interesting  fact  that  they  were  of  kin  to  each  other. 

A  pleasanter  and  more  satisfactory  family  reunion  it 
would  be  difficult  to  imagine.  All  were  pleased,  all  were 
gratified  at  the  result  of  so  much  effort,  and  all  congratu- 
lated themselves  that  at  last  they  had  had  the  opportunity 
to  meet  their  own  kin  under  such  happy  auspices,  and  to 
commemorate  and  honor  the  virtues  of  their  common 
ancestor. 

Not  a  little,  too,  was  added  to  the  pleasure  of  the  occa- 
sion, by  the  fact  that  in  all  that  was  said  and  done,  not 
only  were  the  descendants  of  the  second  governor  of 
Massachusetts  able  to  appeal  to  authentic  history  in  their 
celebration  of  the  virtues  of  their  great  ancestor,  but  fair 
scope  and  full  opportunity  also  was  given  to  their  feelings 
of  patriotism  in  thus  commemorating  likewise  the  great 
deeds  of  one  of  the  founders  of  New  England. 

May  not  the  hope  be  expressed  that  this  is  in  fact  but 
the  first  of  many  reunions  of  our  Dudley  kith  and  kin  ; 
that  as  the  generations  go  by,  our  children  and  their  chil- 
dren shall  continue  the  delightful  custom  here  inaugu- 


PRESIDENT'S  CLOSING  REMARKS.  95 

rated,  down  to  remoter  generations  ;  and  that  we  and  they 
who  come  after  us,  shall  never  forget  to  hold  in  tender  and 
appreciative  remembrance  the  virtues  of  our  ancestor,  to 
the  end  that  we  and  those  who  follow  may  be  the  better 
therefor,  and  that  the  common  weal  may  be  thereby 
enhanced. 


Memorial  to  <Bov.  Gbomas  JDuMeg. 


[The  following  extract  from  a  letter  written  by  one  of 
the  Committee  on  Memorial  to  our  distinguished  ancestor 
is  published,  in  order  that  the  minds  of  all  reading  this  vol- 
ume may  be  set  to  thinking  upon  this  most  important  sub- 
ject.] 

I  have  been  pondering  the  question  "What  shall  we 
recommend?" — Of  course  in  Article  II  of  the  Constitu- 
tion, the  Association  binds  itself  as  its  first  active  duty  and 
work,  to  protect  the  place  where  rest  the  ashes  of  our  cele- 
brated ancestor,  as  may  be  found  most  "  fitting  and  appro- 
priate. "  — 

To  me,  the  "  fitting  and  appropriate  "  seems  to  be  mere- 
ly care  of  the  plot  and  tomb,  keeping  it  in  its  original  sim- 
plicity, with  nothing  added  to  the  existing  inscription,  — 
cleaning  the  stone  if  necessary  and  doing  whatever  can  be 
done  to  preserve  it,  etc.,  etc. —  and,  if  the  plot  is  large 
enough  to  admit  of,  a  small  space  in  fine  grass  well  tended. 
I  think  nothing  could  be  finer  than  the  original  tomb  thus 
preserved,  and  set  off.  Nineteenth  century  monuments 
would  be  sadly  incongruous  in  such  a  case  and  such  a 
place. 

I  think  that  a  sufficient  fund  should  be  set  apart  for 
such  care  of  the  tomb,  and  its  expenditure  entrusted  to  a 
committee,  members  of  the  Association  living  in  Boston,  or 


96  MEMORIAL   TO    GOT.   THOMAS   DUDLEY. 

in  its  immediate  vicinity,  which  committee  shall  be  appoint- 
ed by  the  Association  and  shall  report  thereto  at  the  annu- 
al meetings. 

But  I  think  that  our  great  ancestor  should  have  a  memo- 
rial to  his  memory  erected  by  his  descendants  in  this  As- 
sociation, and  I  rise  and  propose  that,  as  Governor  Dudley 
signed  the  Charter  for  Harvard  University,  what  more  fit- 
ting and  appropriate  form  could  that  memorial  take  on, 
than  that  of  a  building  connected  with  that  great  seat  of 
learning — and  further  I  propose  that  the  building  be  in 
some  way  for  the  use  of  women  students  at  Harvard,  and 
that  it  be  called  "  The  Governor  Thomas  Dudley  Hall  "  - 

That  would  indeed  be  something  great  to  achieve  and  a 
memorial  worthy  of  a  great  ancestor. 

My  proposition  in  full  therefore  is — provide  first  for  the 
perpetual  care  and  preservation  of  the  tomb  and  burial 
plot  in  their  original  character — and  then  start  on  the 
college  which  will  give  the  Association  a  living  work  to 
do  which  will  never  be  done,  but  always  capable  of  en- 
largement and  greater  beneficence  from  year  to  year. 

Perhaps  you  will  think  me  visionary  or  audacious  in 
making  a  proposal  requiring  so  much  money  and  time  to 
carry  it  out.  But  Dudleys  should  not  be  content  to  do 
only  small  things.  Therefore  I  say — "  Undertake  and 
achieve, "  as  did  our  ancestor. 

I  hope  to  hear  from  the  committee  shortly  and  to  know 
in  brief,  if  you  will  kindly  inform  me  what  the  other  mem- 
bers propose,  and  what  action  is  taken. 

With  kind  regards, 

I  am,  yours  and  theirs  in  the  clan, 

LOUISE  WINTHROP  KOUES. 


97 


'0  IReport 


L.  EDWIN  DUDLEY,  TREASURER. 

IN  ACCOUNT  WITH  THE  EXECUTIVE  COMMITTEE,  WHICH  ORGAN- 
IZED THE  RE-UNION  OF  THE  DESCENDANTS  OF  GOVERNOR 
THOMAS  DUDLEY. 


DR. 

CR. 

To    amount    received 

By  disbursements   as 

from  contributions  to  de- 

per schedule  annexed. 

748  3° 

fray  the  expenses. 

374  So 

By  cash  on  hand. 

203  55 

To   amount    received 

from  the    secretary   for 

sale  of  dinner  tickets. 

559  85 

To    amount    received 

for    the  preservation   of 

the  tomb,  etc. 

17  50 

All    as    per    annexed 

schedule. 

Total 

$951  85 

Total 

$951  85 

Respecfully  submitted, 

L.  EDWIN  DUDLEY,  Treasurer. 


BOSTON,  DEC.  1892. 

The  undersigned,  Auditing  Committee,  have  examined  the  ac- 
counts of  the  Treasurer  of  the  Executive  Committee  and  find 
them  correct  in  all  particulars.  Signed. 


Auditing  Committee. 


D.  D.  SLADE, 
W.  P.  DUDLEY, 
A.  M.  DUDLEY. 


98  TREASURER'S  REPORT. 

SCHEDULE  NO.  1, 

CONTRIBUTIONS  RECEIVED  TO  DEFRAY  THE  EXPENSES  OF  THE 
DUDLEY  RE-UNION,  HELD  OCTOBER  25,  1892. 

Sanford  H.  Dudley,          .  .  .  $1000 

E.  G.  Dudley, 5  oo 

Dudley  R.  Cnild,   .  .  .  .  5  oo 

Warren  P.  Dudley,      .  .  .  .        10  oo 

Dean  Dudley,         .  .  .  .  5  oo 

L.  Edwin  Dudley,       .  .  .  .1000 

}.  F.  Dudley,          .  .  .  .  10  oo 

.  B.  Moors,      .  .  .  .  25  oo 

C.  V.  Dudley,          .  .  .  .  10  oo 

E.  Dudley  Freeman,  .  .  .  5  oo 

Dr.  Eliz.  A.  Carleton,        .  .  .  5  oo 

Mrs.  Sarah  W.  Chandler,      .  .  2  oo 

Katherine  L.  Morrill,       .  .  .  2  oo 

Richard  M.  Jones,       .  .  .  .1000 

Frank  Dudley,        .  .  .  .  20  oo 

Rev.  G.  M.  Searle,      .  .  .  5  oo 

Mrs.  Edw.  E.  Hale,  .  .  .  5  oo 

Mrs.  R.  S.  Fay.  .  .  .  5  oo 

Dr.  A.  M.  Dudley,  .  .  .  5  oo 

Mrs.  M.  S.  Child,        .  .  .  .1000 

Mrs.  Harvey  A.  Jones,     .  .  .  10  oo 

Mrs.  A.  H.  Dudley,        .        .  .  .          5  oo 

Annie  O.  Bangs,    .  .  .  .  5  oo 

Col.  Henry  Lee,          .  .  .  50  oo 

Orinda  Dudley  Hornbrook,  .  .  5  oo 

C.  M.  Hierginson,        ...  2  oo 

C.  K.  Babb,            .           .  .  .  2  oo 
James  Dudley,             .           .           .                     5  oo 
J.  H.  Dudley,          .           .  ...               5  oo 
Mrs.  Hannan  Chase  Wheeler,          .           .          2  oo 

D.  D.  Slade,           .           .  .  .  5  oo 
Chas.  Head,     .           .           .           .           .1000 
Maurice  P.  White,             .  .           .  5  oo 
Chas.  Anson  Sheldon,           .           .                     5  oo 
Mrs.  Mary  E.  Brigham,     .  .            .  5  oo 
D.  C.  Gilman,              .            .            .                      5  oo 
D.  Dudley  Johnson,          .  .           .               5  oo 
Melissa  D.  Atterbury,            .            .                      5  oo 
Theo.  H.  Sheldon,            .  .           .               2  oo 
Sara  Dudley  Sears,     .           .           .                     2  oo 
Woodbury  Gersdprf  Langdon,  .           .             25  oo 
Mrs.  Lucy  Rumrill,    .            .            .                      2  oo 
Gilman  H.  Tucker,            .  .            .              10  oo 
Ariana  S.  Dudley,       .           .           .           .100 
Albert  W.  Child,    .                                                 5  oo 
Miss  Lily  Dudley,       .           .           .           .          2  oo 
John  Dudley,          .           .  .           .  i  oo 


TREASURER'S  REPORT.  99 

Joseph  P.  Dudley,      .           .           -           .  c  oo 

F.  E.  Dudley,          .           .           .           .  2  50 

Mrs.  Augusta  Dudley,           .           .  5  oo 

Dudley  B.  Seaver,             .           .           .  2  oo 

Jas.  S.  Dudley,             .            .            .  3  oo 

S.  Henry  Dudley,  .            .            .            .  5  oo 

H.  C.  Dudley, 2  oo 

Total  $374.50 

To  amount  received  from  Mr. 

Dudley  R.  Child  for  dinner  tickets,  .  559  85 
Mrs.  Hollis  for  the  preserva- 
tion of  the  family  tomb,.               .            .  10  oo 
Miss  Caroline  Phelps  Stokes 
toward  a  monument,      .           .           .  7  50 

#577  35 

Total  receipts,            .           .           .  $951  85 

SCHEDULE  NO.  2, 

EXPENSES  INCURRED  BY  THE  DUDLEY  RE-UNION,  HELD 
OCTOBER  25,   1892. 

By  cash  paid  to  (Voucher) 

Oct.  7,        Dudley  R.  Child,               (i)  $40  05 

"      8,        Brown  &  Clark,                 (2)  8  25 

"    13,        H.  C.  Whitcomb  &  Co.,    (3)  86 

"    22,        L.  K.  Brown,                       (4)  20  oo 

"    22,        Dudley  R.  Child,                (5)  20  96 
"    25,        Return  of  Mrs.  Russell's 

dinner  tickets,                (6)  2  50 

"    26,        H.  A.  Brooks,                     (7)  2  50 

"    26,        L.  Edwin  Dudley                (8)  10  13 

"    26,        Brown  &  Clark,                  (9)  19  45 

"    26,        J.  F.  Merrqw  &  Co.,          (10)  52200 
Nov.  i,        Ladies'  Philharmonic 

Orchestra,                      (11)  15  oo 

"      2,        John  H.  Thurston,           (12)  7  80 

"      2,        Samuel  G.  Robinson,       (13)  22  25 

"      s,        Dudley  R.  Child,             (14)  10  49 
"      5,        Levi  Redden,  Sexton 

Bowdoin  Street  Church,  (15)  10  oo 

"    17,        Dean  Dudley,                    (16)  21  05 

"    17,        G.  A.  &  S.  W.  Brackett,   (17)  4  oo 

Exchange  on  Checks,       (18)  i  51 

Dec.  7.        Moore  &  Co.,  Teaming,   (19)  9  50 

Total  expenditure,  #748  3° 

Balance  on  hand,  203  55 

Total,  $95 i  85 

Respectfully  submitted, 

L.  EDWIN  DUDLEY,  Treasurer. 


100  APPENDIX. 

jfinal  flDeeting  of  Executive  Committee* 


BOSTON,  Dec.  i,  1892. 

The  final  meeting  of  the  Executive  Committee  "of  the  de- 
scendants of  Governor  Thomas  Dudley,  was  held  at  the  New 
England  Historic  Genealogical  Society's  Building,  No.  18 
Somerset  St.,  Boston,  Dec.  i,  1892.  Mr.  Dean  Dudley, 
Chairman  of  the  Committee  presiding.  The  records  of  all  pre- 
vious meetings  of  the  Committee  were  read  and  approved.  The 
Treasurer  submitted  his  report  and  it  was  referred  to  an 
Auditing  Committee,  which  later  reported  the  Treasurer's  ac- 
counts correct  in  all  particulars.  The  report  of  the  Auditing 
Committee  was  accepted.  It  was  voted  that  the  funds 
held  by  the  Treasurer  of  this  Committee  should  be  transferred 
to  the  Treasurer  of  "  The  Governor  Thomas  Dudley  Family 
Association."  It  was  also  voted  that  the  records  and  all  books 
and  papers,  now  in  the  hands  of  the  Secretary  of  this  Commit- 
tee, should  be  turned  over  to  the  Secretary  of  said  Association. 

The  thanks  of  the  Committee  were  extended,  by  vote,  to  all 
all  who  had  sent  family  memorials  and  relics  to  the  Reunion 
for  exhibition,  and  to  the  Chairman,  Secretary  and  Treasurer, 
for  their  services.  The  record  of  this  final  meeting  was 
read  and  approved.  The  Committee  then  adjourned  sine  die. 


of  Boarfc  of  Directors. 


The  first  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  "  The  Governor 
Thomas  Dudley  Family  Association,"  was  held  at  the  residence 
of  the  President,  in  North  Cambridge,  Mass.,  Dec.  17,  1892. 
This  meeting  proved  to  be  a  very  interesting  and  social 
gathering.  Various  matters  relating  to  the  future  of  the  Asso- 
ciation were  discussed  and  it  was  voted  that  all  the  money 
received  from  the  Executive  Committee,  which  organized  the 
Reunion,  should  be  placed  on  desposit  and  kept  intact  for  the 
preservation  and  care  of  the  Dudley  tomb.  It  was  also  voted 
that  the  Committee  authorized  to  publish  the  Report  of  the  Re- 
union should  make  further  endeavors  to  have  Mr.  Dean  Dudley 
unite  with  them  in  the  publication  of  said  Report  as  per  vote  of 
the  Association. 

The  second  and  last  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  was 
held  at  the  residence  of  Mrs.  Dr.  Elizabeth  A.  Carlton,  Boston, 
Mass.,  Jan.3ist,  1893.  Th?  Publication  Committee  reported  that 
efforts  to  secure  reconciliation  with  Mr.  Dean  Dudley  had 
proved  futile  and  that  he  had  refused  to  recognize  the  Commit- 
tee or  Association  in  any  manner.  By  vote,  the  Publication 
Committee  were  authorized  to  complete  the  Report  of  the  Re- 
union. A  vote  was  passed  declaring  the  office  of  Historian  of 
the  Association  vacant. 


COV.  THOMAS  DUDLEY'S  SEAL- 


This  cut  represents  the  seal  of  the  Governor 
that  was  attached  to  his  will  bearing  date 
Apr.  26, 1652,  and  which  may  he  seen  at  the 
Suffolk  Probate  Office,  in  Boston.  It  is  a 
Lion  Rampant,  with  a  crescent  for  difference. 


LION    RAMPANT. 


The  lion  rampant  seems  to  have  been  borne 
by  the  family  as  early  as  the  9th  of  Edward 
II.  Some  of  the  Dudleys  bore  the  single- 
tailed  green  lion,  as  Gov.  Thomas  Dudley  did. 


SEAL  Or  COV-  JOSEPH  DUDLEY. 


Joseph  Dudley  was  horn  at  Koxbury,  Mass.' 
Sept.  23,  1647,  and  was  the  second  son  of  Gov 
Thos.  Dudley.  He  was  appointed  Governor 
of  the  Provinces  of  Massachusetts  and  New 
Hampshire,  in  1702. 

His  term  of  office  expired  Feb.  1,  1714-15. 
He  died  April  2,  1720,  and  was  buried  in  his 
father's  tomb. 


ARMS  OF  THE  SUTTON  DUDLEYS- 
QUARTERING  MALPAS  AND 
SOMERY- 


1.  Button  of  Notts. 

2.  Malpas  of  Cheshire. 

3.  Malpas  of  Cheshire. 

4.  Somery  of  Staffordshire. 


APPENDIX.  101 

fln  flfeemoriam. 

THEODORE  MITCHELL  KOUES  (KEOUS), 
BORN  AT  PORTSMOUTH,  NEW  HAMPSHIRE, 

JANUARY  31sT,  1811. 

DIED  AT  No.  10  EAST  75TH  STREET,  NEW  YORK  CITY, 
MAY  24TH,  1893. 


"An  honest  man.    One  that  loved  God  and  never  defrauded  his  brother." 


Mr.  Koues  (Keous)  was  the  eldest  descendant  of  Governor 
Thomas  Dudley  present  at  the  first  Reunion  Dinner  of  the 
Gov.  Thomas  Dudley  Family  Association,  at  the  Revere  House, 
Boston,  on  the  evening  of  October  the  twenty-fifth,  1892,  and 
is  the  first  member  of  the  Association  to  pass  from  the  scenes 
of  earth  to  those  of  the  Heavenly  Home,  of  whose  glories  he 
had  a  most  remarkable  vision  several  days  before  his  departure, 
— "glories  which  no  language  is  adequate  to  describe." 

Mr.  Koues'  descent  from  Gov.  Thomas  Dudley  is  as  follows: — 

GOV.  THOMAS  DUDLEY1. 

REV.  SAMUEL  DUDLEY*,  marr.  1633  at  Cambridge,  Mass.,  Mary, 
only  daughter  of  John  Winthrop,  ist  Governor  of  Massa- 
chusetts Bay  Colony. 

ANN  DUDLEY",  marr.  Col.  Edward  Hilton  of  Exeter,  New 
Hampshire,  son  of  Edward  Hilton  of  Exeter,  N.  H. 

COL.  WINTHROP  HILTON*,  marr.  Jane  Wilson. 

DEBORAH  HILTONS,  marr.   Benjamin  Thyng,  of  Exeter,  N.  H. 

WINTHROP  THYNG6,  marr.  Judith  Fowler,  of  Epping,  N.  H. 

DEBORAH  THYNG:,  marr.  in  1774,  WILLIAM  KEOUS,  who  was 
born,  June  20,  1741,  in  the  Parish  of  Kirkcolm,  Wigton- 
shire  (Galloway),  Scotland.  A  graduate  of  Harvard 
University,  class  of  1768,  afterward  in  1775  a  member  of 
the  Brentwood,  New  Hampshire,  "  Committee  of  Corre- 
spondence "  and  clerk  of  trie  same.  (American  Archives. 
Fourth  Series.  Vol.  I,  Page  1222.)  Died  in  Ohio,  Sept. 
ist,  1814. 

THEODOSIUS  KEous8,  4th  son  and  fifth  child  of  William  Keous 
born  April  6th,  1784,  marr.  Margaret  Wallace  Smith,  of 
Dover,  N.  H.,  daughter  of  Josiah  Smith  and  Abigail  Bell, 
his  wife. 

THEODORE  MITCHELL  KouES9  (Keous),  marr.  in  New  York 
City,  Aug.  8th,  1838,  Louisa  Henderson  Monroe  Board, 
daughter  of  Joseph  Board,  Esq.,  and  Elizabeth  Bancker 
Board,  nee  Leaycraft  and  grand-daughter  of  two  officers 
of  the  Revolutionary  War,  viz  : — 

Major  David  Board,  of  New  Jersey,  paymaster  of  the 
New  Jersey  troops  during  the  war,  ana  Lieutenant  William 
Leaycraft,  of  Col.  John  Lamb's  New  York  Regiment  of 
Artillery.  After  the  war  Lieutenant  Leaycraft  was  one 


102  APPENDEX. 

of  the  original  members  of  the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati. 

His  membership  being  now  held  by  one  of  his  great 

grandsons.    Their  eight  children  were  : 
LOUISE  WINTHROP  KouES10  (Keous),  unm. 
HELEN  KOUES]O,  marr.  Geo.  Nelson   Reynolds,  son    of    Nelson 

Bradford  Reynolds,  Esq.,  of  Lewiston,  Maine.     A  lineal 

descendant    of   Governor    Bradford,  of    the   Plymouth, 

Mass.,  Colony. 
THEODORE  LEACRAFT  KOUESI(),  died  aged  five  years  and  eight 

months. 

ELIZABETH  LEAYCRAFT  KouES10,  unm. 
WILLIAM  HENDERSON  KouES10,  died  aged  eleven  months. 
GEORGE  ELLSWORTH    KouES10,    marr.,  January    3rd,    1878,    at 

Elizabeth,  N.  J.,   Mary  Parmly  Toby,   only  daughter  of 

Simeon  Toby,  Esq.,  of  New  Orleans,   La.,   and  Lavinia 

Parmly,  his  wife. 
FRANK  BLEECKER  KouES10,    marr.  January  2nd,  1889,   Jennie, 

daughter  of  Robert  Burgess,  Esq.,  of  Rutherford,  N.  J. 
MARY  MACAULAY  KouES10,    marr.  January  8th,  1878,  at  Kear- 
ney, N.  J.,  Thomas  Toby,  eldest  son  of   Simeon   Toby, 

Esq.,  of  New  Orleans,  La. 

Mr.  Koues'  long  life  was  crowded  with  varied  and  interest- 
ing experiences.  Until  past  middle  age  he  was  actively  en- 
gaged in  a  business  with  large  interests,  and  had  intimate  rela- 
tions and  friendships  with  many  leading  men  of  affairs  of  his 
time.  North  and  south,  east  and  west  of  his  own  country  were 
all  familiar  to  him,  as  at  different  periods  of  his  life  he  had 
lived  in  the  several  sections,  and  studied  closely  the  differing 
phases  of  American  development.  He  also  made  several  ex- 
tended visits  to  Mexico  and  became  a  great  admirer  of  the 
better  class  of  Mexicans  j  and  later  a  trip  to  England  gave  him 
the  great  pleasure  of  seeing  English  people  in  their  own  homes. 
Mr.  Koues,  by  nature,  belonged  to  that  choice  minority  of 
high-tuned  souls,  "  Seekers  after  Truth,"  that  are  ever  widen- 
ing, extending,  their  mental  and  spiritual  horizon  and  who 
know  within  themselves  that  "  one  and  God  are  a  majority." 

In  sentiment  and  principle,  he  was  staunchly  and  truly  Amer- 
ican, but  his  sympathies  were  world-wide,  bounded  only  by 
the  brotherhood  of  man  and  the  many  lands  in  which  men  live 
under  various  aspects  and  conditions.  Such  a  life  and  character 
can  lead  to  but  one  sort  of  old  age.  Mr.  Koues  outlived  nearly 
all  his  early  associates  and  in  his  later  years  he  gradually  with- 
drew from  active  pursuits,  and  became  largely  a  looker  on,  al- 
ways a  keenly  interested  and  appreciative  one  at  the  quickly 
shifting  scenes  of  the  great  panorama  of  the  world. 

His  family  and  a  small  circle  of  intimate  and  congenial 
friends  were  his  dear  companions  and,  a  student  to  the  last,  his 
books  and  papers  filled  many  a  quiet  hour. 

All  subjects  at  home  or  abroad  interested  him  and  he  kept 
himself  thoroughly  abreast  of  the  questions  of  the  day.  He 
grew  old  most  gracefully,  the  quiet  geniality  of  his  nature  seem- 
ing to  ripen  with  each  added  year.  His  well-stored  mind,  and 


APPENDIX.  103 

wide  and  varied  experience  of  life  made  him  an  interesting  com- 
panion to  old  and  young  alike,  and  to  the  latter  he  was  ever  a 
ready  sympathizer,  a  wise  counsellor  and  a  valued  friend. 

A  thoroughly  domestic  and  religious  man,  he  died  as  he  had 
lived  with  his  family  about  him ;  "  in  the  Communion  of  the 
Catholic  Church ;  in  the  confidence  of  a  certain  faith  ;  in  the 
comfort  of  a  reasonable,  religious  and  holy  hope,  and  in  per- 
fect charity  with  the  world."  And  the  end  was  Peace. 

To  the  memory  of  a  dearly  loved  father  this  brief  sketch  is 
affectionately  dedicated  by  his  eldest  daughter. 


Hppeal  for  pbotograpbs* 


50  BROMFIELD  ST.,  BOSTON,  July  5,  1893. 
To  the  descendants  of  Grovernor  Thomas  Dudley. 

Dear  friends  : — It  seems  to  me  that  if  every  descendant 
of  Governor  Thomas  Dudley  will  send  his  or  her  photo- 
graph to  be  placed  in  an  album  to  be  the  property  of 
"  The  Governor  Thomas  Dudley  Family  Association,"  it 
will  make  a  very  valuable  collection  that  will  be  most  high- 
ly prized  by  future  generations. 

If  my  kinsfolk  will  send  their  pictures,  with  their 
own  names  and  those  of  their  ancestors,  I  will  place  them 
in  albums  which  I  will  transmit  to  my  successors  in  office. 

I  sincerly  hope  that  all  who  can,  will  make  an  early  re- 
sponse to  this  circular. 

In  addition  to  pictures  of  living  descendants,  it  will  add 
much  if  each  member  of  the  family  will  send  photographs 
of  relatives  and  ancestors  and  especially  of  family  portraits 
which  they  may  possess. 

With  an  earnest  desire  to  serve  the  family,  I  am,  affec- 
tionately, 

Your  kinsman, 

L.  EDWIN  DUDLEY, 

Treasurer. 


ttable  of  Contents. 


Frontispiece,  (Original  portion  of  Dudley  Castle) 
Introduction,  ......     Page    3 

Proceedings,     .......  7 

Organization,  .  .  .  .  .  .  .13 

Constitution  and  By-Laws,     .  .  .  .  .14 

List  of  Officers,       .  .  .  .  .  .  .18 

List  of  Memorials,  and  Relics  exhibited,     .  .  .19 

List  of  Persons  at  Reunion,          .  .  .  .  .23 

The  Dinner  and  Menu,  ...  •  •          30 

President's  Salutatory,      .  .  .  .  .  .32 

Letters  of  Governor  and  Lieut.  Governor,  .  .         37 

Address  by  Joseph  B.  Moors,       .  .  .  .  .38 

Letters  of  Regret,         .  .  .  .  .  .62 

Explanatory,  ......  64 

Picture  of  Tomb  of  Gov.  Thomas  Dudley  in  present  condition. 
Col.  L.  Edwin  Dudley's  Address,      ....         66 

Col.  Henry  Lee's  Letter,  .....  77 

Remarks  of  Dr.  Albion  M.  Dudley,  ...          82 

Address  of  Edward  Everett  Hale,  D.  D.  .  .  .85 

Address  of  Hon.  Elias  Dudley  Freeman*    ...          87 
Address  of  Rev.  W.  S.  Woodbridge*     .  .  .  .92 

President's  Closing  Remarks,  ....         94 

Memorial  to  Gov.  Thomas  Dudley,         .  .  .  .95 

Treasurer's  Report,      ......         97 

Final  Meeting  of  Executive  Committee,  .  .  .100 

Pictures  of  seals  of  Gov.  Thomas  Dudley,  Gov.  Joseph 

Dudley,  and  Edmund   Dudley's  Lion   Rampart. 

Arms  of  the  Button  Dudley's. 
Appendix,          .......        101 

In  Memoriam  (Theodore  Mitchell  Keous,)      .  .  .  101 

Appeal  for  Photographs,         .  .  .  .  .103 

Table  of  Contents,  .  .  .  .  .  .104 


*A.n  error  was  made  in  transposing  the  order  of  the  addresses  of  Hon.  Eliai 
Dudley  Freeman  and  Rev.  Mr.  Woodbridge  and  was  not  discovered  until  too 
late  to  rectify. 


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